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Nature Genetics 37, 986–990 (1 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/ng1618

Intragenic tandem repeats generate functional variability

Kevin J Verstrepen , An Jansen , Fran Lewitter & Gerald R Fink

Tandemly repeated DNA sequences are highly dynamic components of genomes. Most repeats are in intergenic regions, but some are in coding sequences or pseudogenes.