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Meiotic Recombination

Meiotic Recombination is a genetic process in which homologous chromosomes exchange segments of DNA during meiosis, resulting in new allelic combinations in gametes and serving as a fundamental mechanism for increasing genetic diversity in sexually reproducing organisms.

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Meiotic Crossing Over

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George C. Williams · PubMed · 1975 · 2.1K citations

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Association of BRCA1 with Rad51 in Mitotic and Meiotic Cells

Ralph Scully, Junjie Chen, Annemieke W. Plug et al. · Cell · 1997 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Meiotic catastrophe and retrotransposon reactivation in male germ cells lacking Dnmt3L

Déborah Bourc’his, Timothy H. Bestor · Nature · 2004 · 1.2K citations

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DMC1: A meiosis-specific yeast homolog of E. coli recA required for recombination, synaptonemal complex formation, and cell cycle progression

Douglas K. Bishop, Demian Park, Liuzhong Xu et al. · Cell · 1992 · 1.2K citations

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Comprehensive Human Genetic Maps: Individual and Sex-Specific Variation in Recombination

Karl W. Broman, Jeffrey C. Murray, Val C. Sheffield et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics · 1998 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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    Scott Keeney

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States

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    Gerald R. Smith

    Fred Hutch Cancer Center, United States

    60 publications · 4.3K citations

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    Nancy Kleckner

    Harvard University, United States

    45 publications · 8.4K citations

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    G. Shirleen Roeder

    Yale University, United States

    40 publications · 6K citations

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    Thomas D. Petes

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    92 h-index

    375 publications

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  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    85 h-index

    913 publications

    86.7K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    71 h-index

    339 publications

    59.3K citations

  4. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    69 h-index

    400 publications

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  5. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    65 h-index

    259 publications

    33.5K citations

  6. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    56 h-index

    252 publications

    32K citations

  7. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, United States

    56 h-index

    300 publications

    47.3K citations

  8. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    52 h-index

    320 publications

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  4. Cell

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    104 publications · 17.2K citations

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