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Minisatellite

Definition
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A minisatellite is a tandem repeat with a longer repeat unit than a microsatellite, historically often on the order of roughly 10 to 100 base pairs.

Topics
Core genetics
Related
Microsatellite Tandem Repeat Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR)

Why it matters in GWAS

Minisatellites are less commonly analyzed than SNPs but represent another source of repeat-based variation that may not be well tagged in array data.

Example usage

"The candidate region contained a minisatellite that required targeted characterization."

Microsatellite Tandem Repeat Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR)
Related-term network

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Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Jeffreys AJ, et al. (1985). Hypervariable 'minisatellite' regions in human DNA. Nature.
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