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SUBMITTER: Auton A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3532813 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20120315 6078
To study the evolution of recombination rates in apes, we developed methodology to construct a fine-scale genetic map from high-throughput sequence data from 10 Western chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus. Compared to the human genetic map, broad-scale recombination rates tend to be conserved, but with exceptions, particularly in regions of chromosomal rearrangements and around the site of ancestral fusion in human chromosome 2. At fine scales, chimpanzee recombination is dominated by hotspots, w ...[more]