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The molecular organization of HLA-DQ regions derived from DR7, DQw2, and DR4, DQw3 parental haplotypes and DR7, DQw3, a presumed recombinant haplotype, have been studied to define the sequences between DQA1 and DQB1 which may have been involved in this recombinational event. The breakpoint was localized in the intergenic region near the 3′ end of the DQB1 gene by restriction mapping. DNA sequences in the immediate vicinity of the breakpoint in DR7, DQw2 (parental), and DR7, DQw3 (recombinant) haplotypes revealed the presence of (CA)22 repeats, minisatellite-related sequences and GC-rich sequences. The intergenic regions varied considerably depending on the haplotype and contained several additional types of repetitive sequences including Alu and LINE repeats. Some of these sequences are related to sequences previously suggested to be involved in meiotic or somatic recombination. In particular, (CA)n repeats, which can adopt the Z-DNA conformation, have previously been shown to promote recombination in several systems.
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Satyanarayana, K., Strominger, J.L. DNA sequences near a meiotic recombinational breakpoint within the human HLA-DQ region. Immunogenetics 35, 235–240 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00166828
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