Unstable microsatellite repeats facilitate rapid evolution of coding and regulatory sequences

Genome Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 108-125

  Jansen, A ^a,b   Gemayel, R ^a,b   Verstrepen, K J ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CODING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTRON; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; REVIEW; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865090514     PISSN: 16609263     EISSN: 16623797     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000337121     Document Type: Article

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