• In genetics, macrosatellites are the largest of the tandem repeats within DNA. Each macrosatellite repeat typically is several thousand base pairs in...
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  • nucleotides are repeated, on the order of 1,000 nucleotides, it is called a macrosatellite. When the repeat unit copy number is variable in the population being...
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    Sensation Red Bartlett, and the Rosired Bartlett. One study of several macrosatellite loci in 63 European Pear (Pyrus communis L.) cultivars did not distinguish...
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  • DXZ4 is one of many large tandem repeat loci defined as macrosatellites. Several macrosatellites have been described in humans and share similar features...
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    enough to be translated into DUX4 protein. DUX4 resides within the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat array, which is a DNA sequence composed of a variable number...
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    facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). This gene is located within a D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat array in the subtelomeric region of chromosome 4q35. The D4Z4...
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