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PRDM9 marks the spot

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A new study demonstrates that PRDM9 variation in humans leads to profound differences in the activity of hotspots for both allelic recombination and genomic instability. Although PRDM9 is found to play a role in many more human hotspots than previously suspected, the search remains for additional, undetermined factors involved in defining hotspot locations and intensities.

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Figure 1: View of how PRDM9 variation influences both allelic and nonallelic recombination at individual hotspots.

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  1. Gil McVean and Simon Myers are at The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK.,

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