Abundance of ethnically biased microsatellites in human gene regions.

Microsatellites-a type of short tandem repeat (STR)-have been used for decades as putatively neutral markers to study the genetic structure of diverse human populations. However, recent studies have demonstrated that some microsatellites contribute to gene expression, cis heritability, and phenotype...

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Main Authors: Nick Kinney, Lin Kang, Laurel Eckstrand, Arichanah Pulenthiran, Peter Samuel, Ramu Anandakrishnan, Robin T Varghese, P Michalak, Harold R Garner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225216