The fragile breakage versus random breakage models of chromosome evolution.
For many years, studies of chromosome evolution were dominated by the random breakage theory, which implies that there are no rearrangement hot spots in the human genome. In 2003, Pevzner and Tesler argued against the random breakage model and proposed an alternative "fragile breakage" mod...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1378107?pdf=render |