About The Medical Condition Minisatellites

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Minisatellites

Minisatellites Medical Condition Defined & Explained
Minisatellites Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Minisatellites?

Tandem arrays of moderately repetitive (5-50 repeats) short (10-60 bases) DNA sequences found dispersed throughout the genome and clustered near telomeres. Their degree of repetition is two to several hundred at each locus. Loci number in the thousands but each locus shows a distinctive repeat unit. Minisatellite repeats are often called variable number of tandem repeats.

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