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Glossary Term
Glossary Term Gene Conversion
Definition A type of nonreciprocal recombination event in which a recipient strand of DNA receives information from another strand having an allelic difference. The recipient strand has its original allele "converted" to the new allele as a consequence of the event.
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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB), Gene Ontology (GO), MouseCyc
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MGI 6.12 		The Jackson Laboratory