Simple sequence repeat

Spooner, D. M., Nunez, J., Trujillo, G., Herrera, M., del, R., Guzman, R, Ghislain, M. (2007). Extensive simple sequence repeat genotyping of potato landraces supports a major reevaluation of their gene pool structure and classification. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104,19398-19404. 

Another 3% or so of the human genome consists of highly repetitive sequences, also referred to as simple-sequence DNA or simple sequence repeats (SSR). These short sequences, generally less than 10 bp long, are sometimes repeated millions of times per cell. The simple-sequence DNA has also been called satellite DNA, so named because its unusual base com-... 

Another example is the study of microsatellites that are short DNA loci having simple sequence repeats that are widely distributed throughout the human genome. They are a valuable source for human genetic linkage analysis and molecular cancer research... 

Tang, S., Kishore, V.K., and Knapp, S.J., PCR-multiplexes for a genome-wide framework of simple sequence repeat marker loci in cultivated sunflower, Theor. Appl. Genet., 107, 6-19, 2003. 

Microsatellites (simple sequence repeats, simple tandem repeats)—regions of DNA composed of short two, three, or four nucleotides repeated 2-50 times. 

Multilocus DNA probes such as those of Jeffreys et al (1985), oligonucleotides homologous to very simple sequence repeats (Ali et al, 1986) and the DNA... 

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) sequences of bases, most commonly CA, that are repeated dozens of times and occur at thousands of sites in the genome and... 

DNA polymorphisms useful In mapping human genes Include restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), slngle-nucleotlde polymorphisms (SNPs), and simple sequence repeats (SSRs). 

RUNGIS, D., BERUBE, Y., ZHUANG, J., RALPH, S., RITAND, C.E., ELLIS, B.E., DOUGLAS, C., BOHLMANN, J., RITLAND, K., Robust simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers for spruce Picea spp.) from expressed sequence tags (ESTs)., Theor. Appl Genet., 2004,109, 1283-1294. 

Radtkey R, Feng L, Muralhidar M, etal. Rapid, high-fidellty analysis of simple sequence repeats on an electronically active DNA microchip. Nucleic Acids Res 2000 28 E17 pp l-vl. 

Key Words Genotyping polymorphism single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) simple sequence repeat (SSR) tandem repeat insertion deletion. 

Simple sequence repeats (SSR) are stretches of DNA that are composed of various numbers of repeated DNA segments in which the core repeat unit is 1 to 4 bp in length. These variants are dispersed throughout the genome, are shown to be both functional and nonfunctional in nature, and are highly variable, resulting in the accumulation of multiple alleles for each SSR locus (17). 

Zietkiewicz, E. et al.. Genome fingerprinting by simple sequence repeat (SSR)-anchored polymerase chain reaction amplification. Genomics 20, 176, 1994. 

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