Friday, 17 March 2017

genomics - How many recombination events are there per generation in humans?


I'm looking for a reference that tells me how many recombenation events occur in humans from one generation to the next. Assuming that the human genome is a 3.3 GigaBases long DNA sequence, how many recombination events do you find, and what is he amount of DNA exchanged? Is it in the order of 0.1%, 1% oder 10%?




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