Variation in the Zinc Finger of PRDM9 is Associated with the Absence of Recombination along Nondisjoined Chromosomes 21 of Maternal Origin

Tiffany Renee Oliver^1*, Candace Middlebrooks², Ariel Harden¹, Nyeisha Scott¹, Blair Johnson¹, Jillian Jones¹, Christin Walker¹, Corinthia Wilkerson¹, Sha-Hanna Saffold¹, Abisola Akinseye¹, Tunde Smith³, Eleanor Feingold^4,5 and Stephanie L Sherman⁶

¹Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, 30314, USA

²Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

³Department of Biology, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, 30314, USA

⁴Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA

⁵Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA

⁶Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA

^*Corresponding Author: Tiffany Renee Oliver, Department of Biology, Spelman College Atlanta, GA 30314, USA, Tel: 404-270-5722 Email: