Fig. 4: Repeat characteristics are different in subtelomeric VNTRs. | Translational Psychiatry

Fig. 4: Repeat characteristics are different in subtelomeric VNTRs.

From: Extreme enrichment of VNTR-associated polymorphicity in human subtelomeres: genes with most VNTRs are predominantly expressed in the brain

Fig. 4

Distributions of different VNTR characteristics (as defined by Tandem Repeat Finder) indicate differences between subtelomeric and non-subtelomeric VNTRs. GC-content: the fraction of Guanines (G) and Cytosines (C) in a VNTR; entropy: the quantitative description of the complexity of a VNTR, a measure of sequence conservation and randomness of the VNTR sequence; subunit lengths: a subunit is a stretch of DNA sequence of a given length that is consecutively repeated to form a ‘repetitive sequence’; subunit copies: the number of repetitions of a subunit in a repeat sequence.

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