Mouse PRDM9 DNA-Binding Specificity Determines Sites of Histone H3 Lysine 4 Trimethylation for Initiation of Meiotic Recombination

Variants of the protein PRDM9 differentially regulate a set of human meiotic recombination hotspots highly active in African populations

(2011) I. L. Berg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What are the genomic drivers of the rapid evolution of PRDM9?

(2011) Chris P. Ponting   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Comprehensive, Fine-Scale Dissection of Homologous Recombination Outcomes at a Hot Spot in Mouse Meiosis

(2010) Francesca Cole et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals

(2010) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE

PRDM9 variation strongly influences recombination hot-spot activity and meiotic instability in humans

(2010) Ingrid L Berg et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Mammalian recombination hot spots: properties, control and evolution

(2010) Kenneth Paigen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Prdm9 Controls Activation of Mammalian Recombination Hotspots

(2010) E. D. Parvanov et al.   SCIENCE

Drive Against Hotspot Motifs in Primates Implicates the PRDM9 Gene in Meiotic Recombination

(2010) S. Myers et al.   SCIENCE

PRDM9 Is a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans and Mice

(2010) F. Baudat et al.   SCIENCE

Discrete DNA sites regulate global distribution of meiotic recombination

(2010) Wayne P. Wahls et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Distinct histone modifications define initiation and repair of meiotic recombination in the mouse

(2009) Jérôme Buard et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Extraordinary Molecular Evolution in the PRDM9 Fertility Gene

(2009) James H. Thomas et al.   PLoS One

Genome-Wide Control of the Distribution of Meiotic Recombination

(2009) Corinne Grey et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Trans-Regulation of Mouse Meiotic Recombination Hotspots by Rcr1

(2009) Emil D Parvanov et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Accelerated Evolution of the Prdm9 Speciation Gene across Diverse Metazoan Taxa

(2009) Peter L. Oliver et al.   PLoS Genetics

Predicting DNA recognition by Cys2His2 zinc finger proteins

(2008) Anton V. Persikov et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation marks meiotic recombination initiation sites

(2008) Valérie Borde et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

A common sequence motif associated with recombination hot spots and genome instability in humans

(2008) Simon Myers et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A Mouse Speciation Gene Encodes a Meiotic Histone H3 Methyltransferase

(2008) O. Mihola et al.   SCIENCE

The Recombinational Anatomy of a Mouse Chromosome

(2008) Kenneth Paigen et al.   PLoS Genetics