VNTR mutation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Lower rates for less variable loci

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1192-

  Tanaka, Mark M ^a   Reyes, Josephine F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marker stability; Minisatellites; MIRU; MLVA; Rate of evolution; Tuberculosis; Variable numbers of tandem repeats; VNTR

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETTER; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79960410569     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.03.013     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

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4. Tanaka M.M, Reyes J.F Mutation rates of VNTR loci in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: response to Supply et al., 2011. Infect. Genet. Evol. 2011, 11(6):1189-1190.