Pitt team finds protein that sets the stage for exchanges of DNA code in eggs and sperm

Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 06:40 in Biology & Nature

A team led by a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has discovered a regulatory protein that influences where genetic material gets swapped between maternal and paternal chromosomes during the process of creating eggs and sperm. The findings, which shed light on the roots of chromosomal errors and gene diversity, appear in the current issue of Nature...

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