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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hurles M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3525126 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Recombination and mutation have traditionally been regarded as independent evolutionary processes: the latter generates variation, which the former reshuffles. Recent studies, however, have suggested that allelic recombination influences the underlying mutation rate, as high mutation rates are inferred in regions of high recombination. Furthermore, recombination between duplicated sequences introduces structural variation into the human genome and facilitates the formation of clustered gene fami ...[more]