Until recently, the Y chromosome seemed to fulfil the role of juvenile delinquent among
human chromosomes—rich in junk, poor in useful attributes, reluctant to socialize with its …

Women have been increasingly delaying the start of motherhood in recent decades. The
same trend is seen also for men. The influence of maternal age on fertility, chromosomal …

The causal mechanism underlying the well-established relation between advancing
paternal age and schizophrenia is hypothesized to involve mutational errors during …

Precise estimates of mutation rates at Y‐chromosomal microsatellite STR (short tandem
repeat) loci make an important basis for paternity diagnostics and dating of Y chromosome …

Purpose Fertility at advanced age has become increasingly common, but the aging of
parents may adversely affect the maturation of gametes and the development of embryos …

Local repetitions in genomes are called tandem repeats. A tandem repeat contains multiple,
but slightly different copies of a repeated unit. It changes over time as the copies are altered …

Complete 3′ UTRs unambiguously assigned to specific mRNA isoforms from the Atlantic
salmon full-length (FL) transcriptome were collected into a 3′ UTRome. miRNA response …

Background Variable minisatellites count among the most polymorphic markers of
eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. This variability can affect gene coding regions, like in …

Mutation at most human minisatellites is driven by complex interallelic processes that give
rise to a high degree of length polymorphism and internal structural variation. MSY1, the …

Background Minisatellites are genomic loci composed of tandem arrays of short repetitive
DNA segments. A minisatellite map is a sequence of symbols that represents the tandem …