Repeated sequence (DNA)
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In the study of DNA sequences, one can distinguish two main types of repeated sequence:
In primates, the majority of LINEs are LINE-1 and the majority of SINEs are Alu's.
In prokaryotes, CRISPR are arrays of alternating repeats and spacers.
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[edit] Other types of repeats
Note: The following are covered in detail in "Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics".[1]
- Direct repeats
- Global direct repeat
- Local direct simple repeats
- Local direct repeats
- Local direct repeats with spacer
- Inverted repeats
- Global inverted repeat
- Local inverted repeat
- Inverted repeat with spacer
- Palindromic repeat
- Mirror and everted repeats
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[edit] References
- ^ Ussery, David W.; Wassenaar, Trudy; Borini, Stefano (2008-12-22). "Word Frequencies, Repeats, and Repeat-related Structures in Bacterial Genomes". Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics: Bioinformatics for Microbiologists. Computational Biology. 8 (1 ed.). Springer. pp. 133–144. ISBN 978-1-84800-254-8.
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