Microsatellites are abundant in vertebrate genomes, but their sequence representation and
length distributions vary greatly within each family of repeats (eg, tetranucleotides) …

Microsatellite sequences are ubiquitous in the human genome and are important regulators
of genome function. Here, we examine the mutational mechanisms governing the stability of …

Microsatellites—tandem repeats of short DNA motifs—are abundant in the human genome
and have high mutation rates. While microsatellite instability is implicated in numerous …

Microsatellites are highly mutable, repetitive sequences commonly used as genetic markers,
but they have never been studied en masse. Using a custom microarray to measure …

Dinucleotide microsatellites are useful for gene mapping projects. Depending upon
definition of conservation, published estimates of dinucleotide microsatellite conservation …

Rapid advances in DNA sequencing and genotyping technologies are beginning to reveal
the scope and pattern of human genomic variation. Although single nucleotide …

We examined the abundance of microsatellites with repeated unit lengths of 1–6 base pairs
in several eukaryotic taxonomic groups: primates, rodents, other mammals, nonmammalian …

A number of studies have indicated an influence of sequences flanking tandem repeats on
repeat stability (Monckton et al. 1994; Shimizu et al. 1996; Bowater et al. 1997; Jeffreys …

Most studies of microsatellite evolution utilize long, highly mutable loci, which are
unrepresentative of the majority of simple repeats in the human genome. Here we use an …

We surveyed microsatellite distribution in 10 completely sequenced genomes. Using a
permutation-based statistic, we assessed for all 10 genomes whether the microsatellite …