What are the recombination hotspots?
These are areas of genome surrounded by segmental duplications (which are 95% identical and are separated by 50 kb – 10 Mb of DNA). These are likely to be regions of the genome that can undergo NAHR (non-alleic homologous recombination). Our CytoSure arrays use areas as defined by Eichler et al. These regions are annotated in the software.