Hypervariable ‘minisatellite’ regions in human DNA
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 314 (6006), 67-73
- https://doi.org/10.1038/314067a0
Abstract
The human genome contains many dispersed tandem-repetitive 'minisatellite' regions detected via a shared 10-15-base pair 'core' sequence similar to the generalized recombination signal (chi) of Escherichia coli. Many minisatellites are highly polymorphic due to allelic variation in repeat copy number in the minisatellite. A probe based on a tandem-repeat of the core sequence can detect many highly variable loci simultaneously and can provide an individual-specific DNA 'fingerprint' of general use in human genetic analysis.Keywords
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