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Functional significance of microsatellite markers.
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) - 1 Jan 2013
Sjakste Tatjana, Paramonova Natalia, Sjakste Nikolajs
Abstract excerpt
The review summarizes literature data on the positive results of association studies between the length of microsatellite repeats and predisposition to pathologies. Actually, the data can be classified according to the localization of the microsatellite: in the gene promoter, in the part of exon 1 coding the signal sequence, in gene introns, in the coding areas of genes, and in 3'-untranslated regions. The...
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