variable number tandem repeats
Genotypic Variation and Stability of Four Variable Number Tandem Repeats and Their Suitability for Discriminating Strains of Mycobacterium leprae
... a number of dysfunctional pseudogenes and has been described as highly ...several variable-number tandem repeats (VNTR) and other elements that could prove useful for discriminating ...
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Variable Number Tandem Repeats That Are Useful in Genotyping Isolates of Salmonella enterica subsp enterica Serovars Typhimurium and Newport
... direct repeats, and 54 sequences containing variable-number tandem repeat loci were ...six variable-number tandem ...in variable-number tandem repeat ...
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Use of Variable Number Tandem Repeats To Examine Genetic Diversity of Neisseria meningitidis
... potential variable-number tandem repeats (VNTR) were identified in the genome of Neisseria meningitidis and used to develop a typing ...showed variable VNTR ...
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Investigation of Salmonella Enteritidis outbreaks in South Africa using multi locus variable number tandem repeats analysis, 2013 2015
... Multi-locus variable-number tandem-repeats analysis; MP: Mpumalanga; MST: Minimum spanning tree; NICD: National Institute for Communicable Diseases; NTS: Non-typhoidal Salmonella ; ORU: ...
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Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Using Nine Novel Variable Number Tandem Repeats across the Beijing Family and Low Copy Number IS6110 Isolates
... Nine tandem repeats were found to be variable (variable-number tandem repeats [VNTRs]) in a set of 91 ...The number of alleles of each these nine VNTRs was ...
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Stability of Variable Number Tandem Repeats of Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units from 12 Loci in Serial Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... Variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) of elements named mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRUs) have previously been identified in 12 minisatellite loci of the Mycobacterium ...
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Combinatorial interaction between two human serotonin transporter gene variable number tandem repeats and their regulation by CTCF
... Two variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) in the human serotonin transporter gene, SLC6A4 (the structure is shown in Fig. 1a) have been implicated in the pathophysiology of many CNS-related ...
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Are Variable Number Tandem Repeats Appropriate for Genotyping Mycobacterium leprae?
... While our work was in review, Young and coworkers (23) published the findings of a VNTR study of M. leprae in which eight short tandem repeats were surveyed (of which only one was common to the set used in ...
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The association of insertions/deletions (INDELs) and variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) with obesity and its related traits and complications
... Another gene encoding dopamine receptors is DRD4, which is highly expressed in the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions that are involved in the reward cir- cuits that mediate the reinforcing properties of food, ...
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Molecular Typing of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Isolates from Various Countries in Asia by a Multiplex PCR Assay on Variable Number Tandem Repeats
... To our knowledge, PCR-based VNTR profiling has not been reported for studying the relationship between the S. enterica serovar Typhi isolates, although it has been used for the strain typing of a number of ...
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Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist ( IL1RA ) and Interleukin-4 (IL4) Genes Variable Number Tandem Repeats (VNTRs) Are Associated with Adiposity in Malaysian Subjects
... IL-4, secreted by activated Th2 lymphocytes, basophils, and mast cells, executes many biological roles such as induction of Th2 differentiation, immunoglobulin class switching, and B cell proliferation [11]. In animal ...
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Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium bovis Strains Isolated in Italy from 2000 to 2006 and Evaluation of Variable Number Tandem Repeats for Geographically Optimized Genotyping
... The 100 SB0120 panel is not representative of the genetic complexity of the Italian M. bovis population and the allelic diversity index of individual MIRU-VNTR loci obtained with this panel can be different from that of ...
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Combination of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and Variable Number Tandem Repeats for Genotyping a Homogenous Population of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Strains in China
... TB burdens is challenging. As shown in this and previous studies, the homogenous M. tuberculosis population in those settings usu- ally led to a relatively low discrimination power of traditional genotyping methods and ...
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DNA fingerprinting of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli O157 based on Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeats Analysis (MLVA)
... The Tandem Repeat Finder software [26] found 36 repeats when it was set to search for repeated motifs of 6 or more nucleotides repeated in tandem with 3 or more copies, which were more than 60% ...
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Identification and Characterization of Variable Number Tandem Repeats in the Yersinia pestis Genome
... copy number and diversity and between repeat length and diversity will provide a guide for designing typing systems that match the research goals of particular ...
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Polymorphism of Variable Number Tandem Repeats at Multiple Loci in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... Over a decade, the fingerprinting method based on restric- tion fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of IS6110 inser- tion sequences has been established as the standard for typing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ...
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Use of Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit Variable Number Tandem Repeat Typing To Examine Genetic Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Singapore
... using variable-number tandem repeats of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU- VNTR) is a powerful tool for studying the epidemiology and genetic relationships of Mycobacterium ...
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Evaluation of a Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis Scheme for Typing Human Brucella Isolates in a Region of Brucellosis Endemicity
... of tandem repeat loci and validation of an MLVA ...fingerprint variable-number tandem repeats (HOOF- Prints) MLVA panel of loci that have been described by Bricker et ...three ...
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Variable Number of Tandem Repeats in Salmonella enterica subsp enterica for Typing Purposes
... The genomic sequences of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica strains CT18, Ty2 (serovar Typhi), and LT2 (serovar Typhimurium) were analyzed for potential variable number tandem repeats ...
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A new approach to in silico SNP detection and some new SNPs in the Bacillus anthracis genome
... and variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs), can be used effectively not only for the differentiation of perfect strain data, but also for the comparison of moderately incomplete, noisy and, in ...
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