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Molecular Analysis of the Major MHC Recombinational Hot Spot Located Within the G7c Gene of the Murine Class III Region That Is Involved in Disease Susceptibility¹

Margriet Snoek^2,*, Cory Teuscher and Huub van Vugt^*

^* Division of Molecular Genetics, The Netherlands Cancer Institute (Antoni van Leeuwenhoek), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801

Recombination within the MHC does not occur at random, but crossovers are clustered in hot spots. We previously described a recombinational hotspot within the 50-kb Hsp70.3–G7 interval in the class III region of the mouse MHC. The parental haplotypes of recombinants with crossovers in this region represent the majority of the laboratory haplotypes (a, b, d, dx, k, m, p, px, q, s, and u). Using microsatellite markers and sequence-based nucleotide polymorphisms, the breakpoint intervals of 30 recombinants were mapped to a 5-kb-long interval within the G7c gene adjacent to G7a. Recombination within the G7c hot spot does not appear to be restricted to certain haplotypes. Sequence motifs that had been suggested to be associated with site-restricted meiotic recombination were absent in the vicinity of the G7c hot spot, and hence, these sequence motifs are no prerequisite for meiotic recombination. The G7c hot spot resides in a region to which a number of disease susceptibility loci have been mapped, including susceptibility to cleft palate, experimental autoimmune allergic orchitis, and chemically induced alveolar lung tumors. The exact localization of crossovers in recombinants that have been used in functional studies is important for mapping susceptibility genes and limits the number of candidate genes.

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