Length Of Flanking Repeat Region And Timing Affect Genetic Material

In children with genomic disorders, often a gamete - egg or sperm - has gone disastrously awry with either a duplication or deletion of genetic material that results in physical and neurological problems for the subsequent child. Previous studies have identified a procedure called nonallelic homologous recombination, which occurs during meiosis or sexual cell division, as the event that most commonly occurs and results in this mistake in DNA...

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