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Mutational processes of simple-sequence repeat loci in human populations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Apr 1994
Di Rienzo A, Peterson A C, Garza J C, Valdes A M, Slatkin M, Freimer N B
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Mutational processes of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in complex genomes are poorly understood. We examined these processes by introducing a two-phase mutation model. In this model, most mutations are single-step changes, but infrequent large jumps in repeat number also occur. We used computer simulations to determine expected values of statistics that reflect frequency distributions of allele size for the...
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