Percent of female and male recombination hotspots that are sex-specific

Value 15 %
Organism Human Homo sapiens
Reference Hussin J, Roy-Gagnon MH, Gendron R, Andelfinger G, Awadalla P. Age-dependent recombination rates in human pedigrees. PLoS Genet. 2011 Sep7(9):e1002251. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002251 p.1 left column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID21912527
Primary Source Kong A et al., Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals. Nature. 2010 Oct 28 467(7319):1099-103. doi: 10.1038/nature09525.PubMed ID20981099
Comments "15% of female and male hotspots are sex-specific (primary source)"
Entered by Uri M
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