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Admixture provides new insights into recombination

Advances in both pedigree-based and population-based genetic maps in recent years have helped unravel some of the mysteries of human meiotic recombination. The publication of the first admixture-derived human genetic maps offers a new approach for inferring recombination events and provides insight into variation in recombination rate patterns across populations.

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Figure 1: Key principles underlying three approaches to constructing genetic (recombination) maps.

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O'Reilly, P., Balding, D. Admixture provides new insights into recombination. Nat Genet 43, 819–820 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.918

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