Genomic Instability Evolutionary Footprints on Human Health: Driving Forces or Side Effects?

In particular, alleles with a higher repeat number appear to be less stable than those with a lower number of repeats, which explains why a highly significant excess (compared to the expectation under the assumption of random effect) of long microsatellites has been observed in humans and across different species [ 170 ].

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