Cryptic simplicity in DNA is a major source of genetic variation.

doi:10.1038/322652a0

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Cryptic simplicity in DNA is a major source of genetic variation.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Tautz D, Trick M, Dover G A

Abstract excerpt

DNA regions which are composed of a single or relatively few short sequence motifs usually in tandem ('pure simple sequences') have been reported in the genomes of diverse species, and have been implicated in a range of functions including gene regulation, signals for gene conversion and recombin...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
DNA
Genetic Variation
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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