Microsatellite
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microsatellite-174-5083016
title:
Microsatellite
text:
A microsatellite is a tract of repetitive DNA in which certain DNA motifs are repeated, typically 5–50 times. Microsatellites occur at thousands of locations within an organism's genome. They have a higher mutation rate than other areas of DNA leading to high genetic diversity. Microsatellites are often referred to as short tandem repeats (STRs) by forensic geneticists and in genetic genealogy, or as simple sequence repeats (SSRs) by plant geneticists. Microsatellites and their longer cousins, t
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Repeating sequences of 2–13 base pairs of DNA
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsatellite
date created:
2002-03-14T03:21:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T16:46:24Z
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