Hotspots of mammalian chromosomal evolution

AUTOR(ES)

Bailey, Jeffrey A

FONTE

BioMed Central

RESUMO

This study reports an abundance of primate-specific segmental duplications at the breakpoints of syntenic blocks in the human genome. Segmental duplications are associated with syntenic rearrangements but do not necessarily cause them.

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