… For six of the ten samples we had information about the disease and the estimated allele size
… Disease and allele size estimates were only revealed to us after we had correctly identified …

… by or associated with short tandem repeats (STRs), repetitive … of repeat expansion, unusual
structural features of repeat-… samples, the repeat expansion was present in one allele, but …

… Variable-number tandem repeats (VNTRs) represent some of … as repeat units or motifs) that
are repeated in tandem and … alleles to verify that detected mutations were due to changes in …

… C/G polymorphism and Alzheimer's disease (AD) have yielded conflicting results. Furthermore,
the C allele of the IL-6 variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) polymorphism was …

… The gaps between normal and disease allele sizes are also notably different among the
different disorders (Figure l), suggesting that different mechs nisms of mutagenesis and …

… In this commentary, I make the case for studying tandem repeats, concentrating on two …
rich information available at multi-allelic tandem repeat loci, nearly all SNPs are merely bi-allelic. …

… Variable number of tandem repeats (VNTRs) were shown to be most useful because of their
high probability of being informative as they consist of multiple alleles allowing simplicity of …

… CHD group and the control population for three alleles, and also statistical differences in
the age at first onset of CHD for two alleles; at least one allele, D21S11-28.2, was statistically …

… such as detection of variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci either by … allele
represent number of repeats within the allele. Fourteen known alleles are not included in allelic …

… in mice carrying a hypomorphic allele and a null allele for DNA … such as interspersed repeats
and tandem repeats; combined … DNA methylation of the tandem repeat D4Z4 increased in …