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Comment
. 2010;11(2):104.
doi: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-2-104. Epub 2010 Feb 26.

PRDM9 points the zinc finger at meiotic recombination hotspots

Matthew J Neale  1
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PRDM9 points the zinc finger at meiotic recombination hotspots

Matthew J Neale. Genome Biol. 2010.

Abstract

Meiotic recombination events are spread nonrandomly across eukaryotic genomes in 'hotspots'. Recent work shows that a unique histone methyltransferase, PRDM9, determines their distribution.

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