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Gene conversion: remarks on the quantitative implications of hybrid DNA models*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Herbert Gutz
Herbert Gutz
Affiliation:
Division of Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75230
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Some quantitative implications of the gene conversion models of Holliday and Whitehouse & Hastings are discussed. These models predict two kinds of mispairing when a heterozygous mutant is in hybrid DNA. It is pointed out that the latter model, in contrast to statements in the literature, does not require identical repair rates in both kinds of mispairing.

Furthermore, some peculiarities are discussed which result if, among the corrected fractions of hybrid sites, the frequency of repair to wild-type is the same in both kinds of mispairing (r = s). In the Holliday model a minimum results under this condition for the frequency of asci which show a normal 4:4 segregation, but which have originated by repair from meioses with hybrid DNA.

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Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , February 1971 , pp. 45 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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