Microsatellite Interruptions Stabilize Primate Genomes and Exist as Population-Specific Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms within Individual Human Genomes

Guruprasad Ananda; Suzanne E. Hile; Amanda Breski; Yanli Wang; Yogeshwar Kelkar; Kateryna D. Makova; Kristin A. Eckert

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004498

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Microsatellite Interruptions Stabilize Primate Genomes and Exist as Population-Specific Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms within Individual Human Genomes

Guruprasad Ananda,

Current address: Computational Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Suzanne E. Hile,

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Amanda Breski,

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Yanli Wang,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Yogeshwar Kelkar,

Current address: Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Kateryna D. Makova ,

* E-mail: kdm16@psu.edu (KDM); kae4@psu.edu (KAE)

Affiliations Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Medical Genomics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Kristin A. Eckert

* E-mail: kdm16@psu.edu (KDM); kae4@psu.edu (KAE)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Medical Genomics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Microsatellite Interruptions Stabilize Primate Genomes and Exist as Population-Specific Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms within Individual Human Genomes

Guruprasad Ananda,
Suzanne E. Hile,
Amanda Breski,
Yanli Wang,
Yogeshwar Kelkar,
Kateryna D. Makova,
Kristin A. Eckert

Published: July 17, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004498

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