Article
Genetic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on variable numbers of tandem DNA repeats.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 May 1998
Frothingham Richard, Meeker-O'Connell Winifred A
Abstract excerpt
Genetic loci containing variable numbers of tandem repeats (VNTR loci) form the basis for human gene mapping and identification, forensic analysis and paternity testing. The variability of bacterial tandem repeats has not been systematically studied. Eleven tandem repeat loci in the M. tuberculos...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Bacterial
- Gene Dosage
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Species Specificity