"Gene Conversion" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The asymmetrical segregation of genes during replication which leads to the production of non-reciprocal recombinant strands and the apparent conversion of one allele into another. Thus, e.g., the meiotic products of an Aa individual may be AAAa or aaaA instead of AAaa, i.e., the A allele has been converted into the a allele or vice versa.
| Descriptor ID |
D005785
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.728.615.475
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| Concept/Terms |
Gene Conversion- Gene Conversion
- Conversion, Gene
- Conversions, Gene
- Gene Conversions
Polar Recombination- Polar Recombination
- Polar Recombinations
- Recombination, Polar
- Recombinations, Polar
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gene Conversion" by people in Profiles.
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Evolutionary determinants of genome-wide nucleotide composition. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018 02; 2(2):237-240.
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Intraspecific polymorphism, interspecific divergence, and the origins of function-altering mutations in deer mouse hemoglobin. Mol Biol Evol. 2015 Apr; 32(4):978-97.
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Characterizing somatic hypermutation and gene conversion in the chicken DT40 cell system. Methods Mol Biol. 2011; 748:255-71.
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Cutting edge: a cis-acting DNA element targets AID-mediated sequence diversification to the chicken Ig light chain gene locus. J Immunol. 2008 Feb 15; 180(4):2019-23.
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Phages and other mobile virulence elements in gram-positive pathogens. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2002; 264(2):79-94.
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The sequence of a sea urchin muscle actin gene suggests a gene conversion with a cytoskeletal actin gene. J Mol Evol. 1987; 25(1):37-45.