Understanding the genetic basis of variation in meiotic recombination: past, present, and future

SE Johnston - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Meiotic recombination is a fundamental feature of sexually reproducing species. It is often
required for proper chromosome segregation and plays important role in adaptation and the …

Meiotic recombination: the essence of heredity

N Hunter - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2015‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The study of homologous recombination has its historical roots in meiosis. In this context,
recombination occurs as a programmed event that culminates in the formation of crossovers …

Multi-platform discovery of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes

MJP Chaisson, AD Sanders, X Zhao, A Malhotra… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
The incomplete identification of structural variants (SVs) from whole-genome sequencing
data limits studies of human genetic diversity and disease association. Here, we apply a …

Control of meiotic crossovers: from double-strand break formation to designation

S Gray, PE Cohen - Annual review of genetics, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
Meiosis, the mechanism of creating haploid gametes, is a complex cellular process
observed across sexually reproducing organisms. Fundamental to meiosis is the process of …

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

US DOE Joint Genome Institute: Hawkins Trevor 4 … - nature, 2001‏ - nature.com
The human genome holds an extraordinary trove of information about human development,
physiology, medicine and evolution. Here we report the results of an international …

The human genome browser at UCSC

WJ Kent, CW Sugnet, TS Furey, KM Roskin… - Genome …, 2002‏ - genome.cshlp.org
As vertebrate genome sequences near completion and research refocuses to their analysis,
the issue of effective genome annotation display becomes critical. A mature web tool for …

The sequence of the human genome

JC Venter, MD Adams, EW Myers, PW Li, RJ Mural… - science, 2001‏ - science.org
A 2.91-billion base pair (bp) consensus sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human
genome was generated by the whole-genome shotgun sequencing method. The 14.8-billion …

Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data: linked loci and correlated allele frequencies

D Falush, M Stephens, JK Pritchard - Genetics, 2003‏ - academic.oup.com
We describe extensions to the method of Pritchard et al. for inferring population structure
from multilocus genotype data. Most importantly, we develop methods that allow for linkage …

Gender differences in cancer susceptibility: an inadequately addressed issue

MT Dorak, E Karpuzoglu - Frontiers in genetics, 2012‏ - frontiersin.org
The gender difference in cancer susceptibility is one of the most consistent findings in
cancer epidemiology. Hematologic malignancies are generally more common in males and …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammatory bowel disease and mutations affecting the interleukin-10 receptor

EO Glocker, D Kotlarz, K Boztug… - … England Journal of …, 2009‏ - Mass Medical Soc
Background The molecular cause of inflammatory bowel disease is largely unknown.
Methods We performed genetic-linkage analysis and candidate-gene sequencing on …