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Letter

Nature Genetics 37, 601–606 (1 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/ng1565

Human recombination hot spots hidden in regions of strong marker association

Alec J Jeffreys , Rita Neumann , Maria Panayi , Simon Myers & Peter Donnelly

The fine-scale distribution of meiotic recombination events in the human genome can be inferred from patterns of haplotype diversity in human populations but directly studied only by high-resolution sperm typing. Both approaches indicate that crossovers are heavily clustered into narrow recombination hot spots.