Meiotic interallelic conversion at the human minisatellite MS32 in yeast triggers recombination in several chromatids

Spontaneous mutation rates to new length alleles at tandem-repetitive hypervariable loci in human DNA

Alec J. Jeffreys, Nicola J. Royle, Victoria Wilson et al. · Nature · 1988 · 765 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +11

Susceptibility to human type 1 diabetes at IDDM2 is determined by tandem repeat variation at the insulin gene minisatellite locus

S. T. Bennett, Anneke Lucassen, Stephen Gough et al. · Nature Genetics · 1995 · 754 citations

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +10

A pathway for generation and processing of double-strand breaks during meiotic recombination in S. cerevisiae

Liang Cao, Eric Alani, Nancy Kleckner · Cell · 1990 · 686 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +16

Extensive 3′-overhanging, single-stranded DNA associated with the meiosis-specific double-strand breaks at the ARG4 recombination initiation site

Hong Sun, Douglas A. Treco, Jack W. Szostak · Cell · 1991 · 517 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +16

Complex gene conversion events in germline mutation at human minisatellites

Alec J. Jeffreys, Keiji Tamaki, Annette MacLeod et al. · Nature Genetics · 1994 · 488 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +12