Tandem repeat polymorphisms: Mediators of genetic plasticity, modulators of biological diversity and dynamic sources of disease susceptibility

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 769, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Hannan, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MONOGENIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; TANDEM REPEAT POLYMORPHISM; BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; CAG REPEAT; CELL HETEROGENEITY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC PLASTICITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYGENIC DISORDER; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

REPETITIVE DNA;

EID: 84934435461     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5434-2_1     Document Type: Review

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