Centimorgan (cM) at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Centimorgan (cM)? 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, one centimorgan is equ

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