Abundance and length of simple repeats in vertebrate genomes are determined by their structural properties

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Figure 2.
Figure 2.

Model for a relationship among repeat abundance, DNA structure, repeat polymorphism, and variable phenotype. (Orange) triNRs or tetraNRs. Note that overall repeat lengths are not drawn to scale and that the choice of decreased gene expression with increasing repeat length is arbitrary.

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  1. Published in Advance August 7, 2008, doi: 10.1101/gr.078303.108 Genome Res. 18: 1545-1553

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