ISSN:
0173-0835
Schlagwort(e):
Minisatellite
;
Mutation
;
Recombination
;
Conversion
;
Sperm
;
Chemistry
;
Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Quelle:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Thema:
Biologie
,
Chemie und Pharmazie
Notizen:
Minisatellites provide one of the most experimentally tractable systems for studying tandem repeat instability in man. Analysis of mutation processes has been greatly aided by the development of single molecule methods for recovering de novo mutants, and of techniques for exploring allele structure in detail. Application of these approaches to man has shown that minisatellites do not primarily mutate by processes such as replication slippage and unequal crossover intrinsic to the tandem repeat array. Instead, germline repeat instability is largely regulated by cis-acting elements near the array and involves unexpectedly complex processes of gene conversion, of potential relevance to the biology of meiosis. These processes can be explored both in humans and, in principle, in transgenic mouse models of human repeat instability.
Zusätzliches Material:
6 Ill.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/elps.11501601261
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