Definition of Centimorgan
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Medical Definition of Centimorgan
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A unit of measure of recombination frequency. One centimorgan is equal to a 1% chance that a marker at one genetic locus will be separated from a marker at a second locus due to crossing over in a single generation.
In human beings, 1 centimorgan is equivalent, on average, to 1million base pairs.
(13 Jan 1998)
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