Pathological Consequences of Sequence Duplications in the Human Genome

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Proposed recombination events between homologous sequences affecting genes in Xq28. Recombinations lead to, respectively (A) Hunter syndrome; (B) color blindness, (C) polymorphism (inversion) and occasional further crossover/deletion to give EMD muscular dystrophy, and (D) hemophilia A.

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  1. Genome Res. 8: 1007-1021

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