Gudrun M. Jonsdottir

TL;DR: Recombination rates are significantly correlated with both cytogenetic structures and sequence and paternal chromosomes show many differences in locations of recombination maxima, suggesting that there is some underlying component determined by both genetic and environmental factors that affects maternal recombination rates.

TL;DR: It is shown that the H2 lineage is undergoing positive selection in the Icelandic population, such that carrier females have more children and have higher recombination rates than noncarriers.

TL;DR: A genome-wide association scan for sequence variants affecting eosinophil counts in blood of 9,392 Icelanders found that a nonsynonymous SNP at 12q24, in SH2B3, associated significantly with myocardial infarction in six different populations.

TL;DR: It is noteworthy that the haplotype formed by two single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with the highest recombinations in males is associated with a low recombination rate in females, which means that if the frequency of the haplotypes changes, the average recombinations will increase for one sex and decrease for the other, but the sex-averaged recombination rates of the population can stay relatively constant.

TL;DR: This work examined genome-wide microsatellite data for 23,066 individuals, providing information on recombination events of 14,140 maternal and paternal meioses each, and found a positive correlation between maternal recombination counts of an offspring and maternal age.