Genome-wide survey of tandem repeats by nanopore sequencing shows that disease-associated repeats are more polymorphic in the general population

• मुख्य लेखकों: Satomi Mitsuhashi (लेखक), Martin C. Frith (लेखक), Naomichi Matsumoto (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Abstract Background Tandem repeats are highly mutable and contribute to the development of human disease by a variety of mechanisms. It is difficult to predict which tandem repeats may cause a disease. One hypothesis is that changeable tandem repeats are the source of genetic diseases, because disea...