Recombination, pairing, and synapsis of homologs during meiosis

D Zickler, N Kleckner - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Recombination is a prominent feature of meiosis in which it plays an important role in
increasing genetic diversity during inheritance. Additionally, in most organisms …

Mechanism and regulation of meiotic recombination initiation

I Lam, S Keeney - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Meiotic recombination involves the formation and repair of programmed DNA double-strand
breaks (DSBs) catalyzed by the conserved Spo11 protein. This review summarizes recent …

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 …

Multiple Pathways of Recombination Induced by Double-Strand Breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

F Pâques, JE Haber - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the principal organism used in
experiments to examine genetic recombination in eukaryotes. Studies over the past decade …

Introduction of double-strand breaks into the genome of mouse cells by expression of a rare-cutting endonuclease

P Rouet, F Smih, M Jasin - Molecular and cellular biology, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
To maintain genomic integrity, double-strand breaks (DSBs) in chromosomal DNA must be
repaired. In mammalian systems, the analysis of the repair of chromosomal DSBs has been …

[HTML][HTML] A hierarchical combination of factors shapes the genome-wide topography of yeast meiotic recombination initiation

J Pan, M Sasaki, R Kniewel, H Murakami, HG Blitzblau… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
The nonrandom distribution of meiotic recombination influences patterns of inheritance and
genome evolution, but chromosomal features governing this distribution are poorly …

Genetic recombination is directed away from functional genomic elements in mice

K Brick, F Smagulova, P Khil, RD Camerini-Otero… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Genetic recombination occurs during meiosis, the key developmental programme of
gametogenesis. Recombination in mammals has been recently linked to the activity of a …

Nucleosomes and DNA methylation shape meiotic DSB frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana transposons and gene regulatory regions

K Choi, X Zhao, AJ Tock, C Lambing… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Meiotic recombination initiates from DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) generated by SPO11
topoisomerase-like complexes. Meiotic DSB frequency varies extensively along eukaryotic …

Arabidopsis meiotic crossover hot spots overlap with H2A.Z nucleosomes at gene promoters

K Choi, X Zhao, KA Kelly, O Venn, JD Higgins… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
PRDM9 directs human meiotic crossover hot spots to intergenic sequence motifs, whereas
budding yeast hot spots overlap regions of low nucleosome density (LND) in gene …

Genome architecture, rearrangements and genomic disorders

P Stankiewicz, JR Lupski - TRENDS in Genetics, 2002 - cell.com
An increasing number of human diseases are recognized to result from recurrent DNA
rearrangements involving unstable genomic regions. These are termed genomic disorders …