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Tandem repeats discovery service (TReaDS) applied to finding novel cis-acting factors in repeat expansion diseases.
BMC bioinformatics - 28 Mar 2012
Pellegrini Marco, Renda Maria Elena, Vecchio Alessio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Tandem repeats are multiple duplications of substrings in the DNA that occur contiguously, or at a short distance, and may involve some mutations (such as substitutions, insertions, and deletions). Tandem repeats have been extensively studied also for their association with the class of repeat expansion diseases (mostly affecting the nervous system). Comparative studies on the output of different...
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