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Elena de La Casa-Esperón1, J Concepción Loredo-Osti, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Tammi L Briscoe, Jan Michel Malette, Joe E Vaughan, Kenneth Morgan, Carmen Sapienza.
Abstract
We observed that maternal meiotic drive favoring the inheritance of DDK alleles at the Om locus on mouse chromosome 11 was correlated with the X chromosome inactivation phenotype of (C57BL/6-Pgk1(a) x DDK)F(1) mothers. The basis for this unexpected observation appears to lie in the well-documented effect of recombination on meiotic drive that results from nonrandom segregation of chromosomes. Our analysis of genome-wide levels of meiotic recombination in females that vary in their X-inactivation phenotype indicates that an allelic difference at an X-linked locus is responsible for modulating levels of recombination in oocytes.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12196408 PMCID: PMC1462220
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genetics ISSN: 0016-6731 Impact factor: 4.562