Article
Compound microsatellite repeats: practical and theoretical features.
Genome research - 1 Sept 1999
Bull L N, Pabón-Peña C R, Freimer N B
Abstract excerpt
Most linkage and population genetic studies that use microsatellites assume that the polymorphism observed at these loci is due simply to variation in the number of units of a single repeat. Variation is far more complex, however, for the numerous microsatellites that contain interruptions within the repeat or contain more than one type of repeat. We observed that for D18S58, a compound microsatellite containing...
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