Article
[Human microsatellites: mutation and evolution].
Genetika - 1 Oct 2004
Nikitina T V, Nazarenko S A
Abstract excerpt
Microsatellites (MSs) are short tandem DNA repeats with the repetitive motif of two to six nucleotides, forming tracts up to hundreds of nucleotides long. Notwithstanding the active use of MSs in genetic studies of various biological problems, the reasons for their wide occurrence in the genome, their possible functions, and mutational behavior are still unclear. The mutation rate in MS repeats is on average...
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