Effects of trans-acting Genetic Modifiers on Meiotic Recombination Across...

Genetics;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Meiotic recombination rates are potentially affected...background and not in another. Recombination rates across two genetic intervals...example, in most species recombination rates per megabase are suppressed...

A Comparison of Three Estimators of the Population-Scaled Recombination...

Genetics;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......indicate that patterns of relative recombination rates should be inferred reasonably well...prespecified distance. KNOWLEDGE of how recombination rates vary across genomes is of critical...methods are available for measuring recombination rates: pedigree methods, sperm typing...

Combining Sperm Typing and Linkage Disequilibrium Analyses Reveals...

Genetics;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......there is extensive heterogeneity in recombination rates over the scale of kilobases (CRAWFORD...decay is due largely to variation in recombination rates was bolstered by the analysis of...chimpanzee. However, even though recombination rates on a fine scale appear to have changed...

Natural selection in humans

The Scientist;  February 14, 2005 ;     239 words ......females having 3.2% more children per generation and higher recombination rates. "The data are very, very strong," says David Reich of...presence. The mechanisms for the increased fertility and recombination rates remain uncertain but are not the only direction for future...

Using Crossover Breakpoints in Recombinant Inbred Lines to Identify...

Genetics;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......selection pressures evolve increased recombination rates. Similarly to the natural evolutionary...known about the control of genomewide recombination rates. Variation in recombination rates has been documented both within and...

Everything except the beds

Marketplace;  April 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ......measured for the first time the recombination rates of about 60 percent of the human genome. The recombination rates affect how segments of chromosomes...showed large variations in recombination rates across chromosomes. The research...

The Effects of Recombination Rate on the Distribution and Abundance of...

Genetics;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......accumulation is expected in low recombination regions. We show that TEs become fixed...abundance of TEs in low vs. high recombination regions of the Drosophila genome. In the...deleterious insertion model, since low recombination regions have lower gene densities (Adams...

Genomic Resources: Moving Wheat Into the Mainstream in Plant Genomics

Genetics;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......chromosomes by locus duplications and deletions correlate with recombination rates along chromosome arms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100...of evolution of the wheat genomes are correlated with recombination rates along chromosome arms. Genome Res. 13: 753-763. BENKLER...

An Extension of the Transmission Disequilibrium Test Incorporating...

Genetics;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The recombination rates in meioses of females and...when the female and male recombination rates are equal. On the basis...211-212). In other words, recombination rates are sex specific. The recombination...

Homeologous Recombination in Solanum lycopersicoides Introgression Lines...

Genetics;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......affecting homeologous recombination. Recombination rates were estimated in progeny of 43...of expected frequencies. Relative recombination rates were positively correlated with...segments on the same chromosome. Recombination rates were highest in regions of overlap...

Extensive Chromosomal Repatterning and the Evolution of Sterility Barriers...

Genetics;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......1981; COYNE et al. 1991,1993) or recombination rates (RIESEBERG 2001). However, some...known to greatly reduce effective recombination rates (GREENBAUM and REED 1984; HALE 1986...rearrangements have smaller effects on recombination rates (although, see DAVISSON and AKESON...

The Effects of Genotype-Dependent Recombination, and Transmission...

Genetics;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Jeffreys and Neumann suggested that recombination rates in different individuals at the...considerable finescale variation in recombination rates across the human genome. In particular...heterozygous (AG) had, on average, recombination rates ^2O times higher than those of other...

The Relationship of Nucleotide Polymorphism, Recombination Rate and...

Genetics;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......using a physical estimate of local recombination rates, we find that silent nucleotide...underlying the relationship between recombination rates and levels of nucleotide diversity...regions spanning a range of known recombination rates. Here we report our findings from...

On the Effect of Fluctuating Recombination Rates on the Decorrelation of...

Genetics;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......incorporate the effect of fluctuating recombination rates into the standard gene-genealogical...models allowing for fluctuating recombination rates. This enables us to explain and...fluctuations of empirically determined recombination rates (KONG et al. 2002) give rise to...

Estimation of Recombination Rate and Detection of Recombination Hotspots...

Genetics;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Methods to estimate fine-scale recombination rates from population data have been based...on their estimates of population recombination rates such that their method appears to...100 kb, and hence assuming average recombination rates of 1 cM/Mb (KONG et al. 2004), values...