This region has been shown to undergo non-allelic homologous recombination (NAHR) with a similar low-copy repeat region, the 2q12.2 recombination region, located about 1.7 Mb centromere-proximal to this region, in direct orientation on the reference genome. Deletion of the intervening sequence as a result of NAHR between these recombination regions has been observed. This region overlaps a LINE element. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2016]