The stabilization of repetitive tracts of DNA by variant repeats requires a functional DNA mismatch repair system.

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Simple repetitive tracts of DNA are unstable in all organisms thus far examined. In the yeast S. cerevisiae, we show that a 51 bp poly(GT) tract alters length at a rate of about 10(-5) per cell division. Insertion of a single variant repeat (either AT or CT) into the middle of the poly(GT) tract results in 100-fold stabilization. This stabilization requires the DNA mismatch repair system. Alterations within...

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