Variable numbers of tandem repeats

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Ito, K. et al. (2002). A variable number of tandem repeats in the serotonin transporter gene does not affect the antidepressant response to fluvoxamine. Psychiatry Res, 111, 235-9. 

Ethnic variation in allele frequencies can lead to important differences in disease susceptibility, outcome and drug metabolism [68, 69]. In addition to single nucleotide polymorphisms, variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) regions have been shown to have functional significance. 

Expansion of repetitive sequences (minisateflites or VNTRs, variable number of tandem repeats) within the DNA... 

VNTRs (variable number of tandem repeats). These polymorphisms are the result of varying numbers of minisatellite repeats in a specific region of a chromosome. The repeat units typically range in size from 20 to 70 bases each. The repeat is flanked on both sides by a restriction site, and variation in the number of repeats produces restriction fragments of varying size. 

Alves S, Amorim A, Ferreira F et al. Influence of the variable number of tandem repeats located in the promoter region of the thiopurine methyltransferase gene on enzymatic activity. Clin Pharmacol T/rer 2001 70 165-174. 

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A variable number of tandem repeats of a relatively short oligonucleotide sequence. 

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Persson, J. and M. Ohlin (2006). Antigens for the selection of pan-variable number of tandem repeats motif-specific human antibodies against Mucin-1. J Immunol Methods 316(1-2) 116-124. 

Surveying Plant Genomes for Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Loci... 

The different alleles at a minisatellite locus are thought to vary in the number of repeats of the consensus sequence, hence the name variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) locus.7 For some human VNTR loci... 

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