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Medical Definition of Minisatellite repeats
1. Tandem arrays of moderately repetitive DNA sequences found dispersed throughout the genome but clustered near telomeres. Their degree of repetition is two to several hundred at each locus. Loci number in the thousands but each locus shows a distinctive repeat unit. Minisatellite repeats are often called variable number of tandem repeats. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minisatellite Repeats
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