gene conversion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneandconversion
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gene
noun[C]
uk/dʒiːn/us/dʒiːn/
a part of the DNA in a cell that controls the physical development, behaviour, etc. of an individual plant or animal and is passed on from ...
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conversion
noun
uk/kənˈvɜː.ʃən/us/kənˈvɝː.ʒən/
the process of converting something from one thing ...
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(Definition ofgeneandconversionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This implies that concerted evolution is not acting, which is corroborated by the scarcity of signatures ofgeneconversionand recombination.
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The lack of these signatures suggests a (nearly) complete absence ofgeneconversion.
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This postfertilization error may be somatic crossing-over,geneconversionmechanisms, mitotic replacement of an abnormal chromosome,26 or some other somatic event.
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Although we cannot fully explain their origin, two pieces of evidence suggest that these insertions occurred independently and contradict thegeneconversionhypothesis.
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Meioticgeneconversionand crossing over: their relationship to each other and to chromosome synapsis and segregation.
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Second, the major effect of inversions within the inverted segment is to reduce the rate of crossing over but not that ofgeneconversion.
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The two apparently aberrant sites could differ from the others because ofgeneconversionor mutation that did not otherwise affect the ancestral fragment.
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Signatures of selection andgeneconversionassociated with human color vision variation.
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An intron-encoded protein is active in ageneconversionprocess that spreads an intron into a mitochondrial gene.
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Finally, we consider an alternative model of recombination that incorporates both crossing-over andgeneconversion.
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We were concerned thatgeneconversionrather than reciprocal exchange might be occurring, which might inflate the recombination rate estimate.
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Incidentally, mutational sites within am were first mapped, not by any consistent inequality of recombinant flanking marker classes, but by polarity ofgeneconversion.
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Another important factor in shaping intralocus patterns of linkage disequilibrium isgeneconversion.
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However,geneconversionwas ruled out in this case as precise excision events were occurring in homozygotes.
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Thus, the observed phenomena can be explained by imperfect and repeatablegeneconversion-like events, assigned to specific locations in chromosome 17.
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Bothgeneconversionand cross-over are often referred to as recombination and terminology is sometimes not clearly defined.
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An important contribution ofgeneconversionto meiotic recombination helps to explain our observation, but does not appear to be sufficient.
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