The Structure of Simple Satellite Variation in the Human Genome and Its Correlation With Centromere Ancestry.

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Although repetitive DNA forms much of the human genome, its study is challenging due to limitations in assembly and alignment of repetitive short-reads. We have deployed k-Seek, software that detects tandem repeats embedded in single reads, on 2,504 human genomes from the 1,000 Genomes Project to quantify the variation and abundance of simple satellites (repeat units <20 bp). We find that the ancestral monomer of...

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