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Detection of short tandem repeats in the cattle genome: a comparison of bioinformatic tools.
BMC genomics - 26 Mar 2026
Tran Quan Hong, Nguyen Tuan Viet, Wang Jianghui, MacLeod Iona M, Chamberlain Amanda J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Short tandem repeats (STRs) are repetitive DNA sequences with 1–6 nucleotide repeat units, exhibiting high polymorphism due to varying repeat counts. STRs are more variable than SNPs and can cause genetic disorders. With population-scale cattle whole-genome sequencing data available, whole-genome STR identification has attracted new interest, but challenges remain due to the lack of standardized...
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- Animals
- Cattle
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Genome
- Genomics
- Heterozygote
- Genotype
