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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 recombination, and the replication of telomeres. They are thought to accumulate by DNA slippage and mispairing during...
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