Variable tandem repeats accelerate evolution of coding and regulatory sequences

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2010, Pages 445-477

  Gemayel, Rita ^a,b   Vinces, Marcelo D ^a,b   Legendre, Matthieu ^c   Verstrepen, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

ataxia; Evolvability; microsatellites; phenotype; satellite repeats; SNP

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

BINDING SITE; CELL SURFACE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTRON; KENNEDY DISEASE; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; RNA STRUCTURE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 78149432728     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-072610-155046     Document Type: Review

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