Tandem repeat
Tandem repeat This is a term from genetics ... helps determine an individual's inherited traits. Tandem repeats and variable number tandem repeats in DNA occur when a pattern ...
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Variable number tandem repeat
Variable number tandem repeat A variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) is a short nucleotide sequences ranging ... long that is organized into clusters of tandem repeats, usually repeated in the range of ...
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Talk:Race (Archive 7)
... University, assayed approximately 375 polymorphisms called short tandem repeats in more than 1,000 people from ... University, assayed approximately 375 polymorphisms called short tandem repeats in more than 1,000 people from ... University, assayed approximately 375 polymorphisms called short tandem repeats in more than 1,000 ...
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Microsatellite
... within the genome of an organism. Many repeats tend to be concentrated at the same ... or four nucleotides (di-, tri-, and tetranucleotide repeats respectively), and can be repeated 10 to ... Classically, the first microsatellites identified were dinucleotide repeats often called "Ka-Ka" repeats or "CACACACACA....". These are highly frequent in ... repeat is typically a function of size: repeats larger than 10-15 repeats and ...
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Genetic fingerprinting
... using PCR to detect the number of repeats at several loci, it is possible to ... DNA samples. It relied on variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphisms to distinguish various alleles ... done on a gel, very high number repeats may bunch together at the top of ... is based on PCR and uses short tandem repeats (STR). This method uses highly polymorphic ...
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Satellite DNA
... types of Satellite DNA: A: Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs, also called Short Tandem Repeats, or STRs): SSRs are dispersed throughout the ... 15 to 50 base pairs, repeated in tandem up to thousands of times. There are ... microsatelite loci in the human genome. B: Tandem Repeat : These sequences are localized at ...
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Minisatellite
... consist of repetitive, generally GC-rich, variant repeats that range in length from 10 to over 100 bp. These variant repeats are tandemly intermingled, which makes minisatellites ideal ... fingerprinting by Alec Jeffreys, this class of repeats has been an intense focus of studies ... processes that occur at this class of tandem repeat. Minisatellite variant repeat mapping by PCR ... to chart the interspersion patterns of variant repeats along the array, which provides details ...
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DYS (DNA)
... Y chromosome where a sequence of nucleotides repeats. These sequences are known as short tandem repeats (STRs), and are called markers in genealogical DNA testing. The possible variations of repeats at a DYS marker are known as ... DNA test Genetic genealogy DNA Allele Short tandem repeat
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Genealogical DNA test
... sequences of nucleotides repeat, known as short tandem repeats (STRs). These segments are considered "junk" DNA ... chromosome. The results will tell how many repeats the test subject had at any given marker; the variations of repeats are known as alleles. For example, at ... show 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 repeats (source). The test results are then ...
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Genealogical DNA test (Psychology wiki)
... sequences of nucleotides repeat, known as short tandem repeats (STRs). These segments are considered "junk" DNA ... chromosome. The results will tell how many repeats the test subject had at any given marker; the variations of repeats are known as alleles . For example, at ... show 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 repeats (source). The test results are then ...
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