National Cancer Institute (source definition)
Polymorphic Microsatellite Marker Analysis
Analysis that looks for differences in the lengths of microsatellite repeats between alleles. Polymorphic microsatellites are present in the genome every few thousand base pairs and can function as molecular markers.
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What it is
Analysis that looks for differences in the lengths of microsatellite repeats between alleles. Polymorphic microsatellites are present in the genome every few thousand base pairs and can function as molecular markers.
Source: National Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus 26.09d, C63332. NCI definition, reproduced without modification under CC BY 4.0.
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