Tandemly repeated DNA: Why should anyone care?

被引：27

作者：

Armour, John A. L. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Nottingham, Queens Med Ctr, Inst Genet, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England

来源：

MUTATION RESEARCH-FUNDAMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUTAGENESIS | 2006年 / 598卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

tandemly repeated DNA; genomic instability; functional effects;

D O I：

10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2006.01.013

中图分类号：

Q81 [生物工程学（生物技术）]; Q93 [微生物学];

学科分类号：

071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;

摘要：

Recent excitement over SNPs has tended to obscure the real advantages of studying tandemly repeated loci. In this commentary, I make the case for studying tandem repeats, concentrating on two major arguments. Firstly, tandemly repeated loci are unrivalled as a source of detailed mechanistic information in studies of variation and mutation, and are highly informative reporters of genomic instability in studies of induced mutation. Secondly, changes at many tandem repeats have important functional consequences, and in addition to examples of "strong" single-gene effects such as those at the triplet repeat disease loci, there may well be a much larger number of loci at which subtler functional effects remain to be discovered. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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