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Hamid Reza Razzaghian
Contributed equally to this work with: Hamid Reza Razzaghian, Lars A. Forsberg
Affiliation: Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Lars A. Forsberg
Contributed equally to this work with: Hamid Reza Razzaghian, Lars A. Forsberg
Affiliation: Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Kancherla Reddy Prakash
Affiliation: Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Szymon Przerada
Affiliation: Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Hanna Paprocka
Affiliation: Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Anna Zywicka
Affiliation: Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Maxwell P. Westerman
Affiliation: Hematology Research, Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Nancy L. Pedersen
Affiliation: Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Terrance P. O'Hanlon
Affiliation: Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Lisa G. Rider
Affiliation: Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Frederick W. Miller
Affiliation: Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Ewa Srutek
Affiliation: Surgical Oncology Clinic, Collegium Medicum, Oncology Center, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Michal Jankowski
Affiliation: Surgical Oncology Clinic, Collegium Medicum, Oncology Center, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Wojciech Zegarski
Affiliation: Surgical Oncology Clinic, Collegium Medicum, Oncology Center, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Arkadiusz Piotrowski
Affiliation: Department of Biology and Pharmaceutical Botany, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
Devin Absher
Affiliation: HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
Jan P. Dumanski
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Introduction
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has recently characterized regions of transcription, transcription factor association, and chromatin structure suggesting biochemical functions for up to 80% of the human genome [1]. Repetitive DNA sequences with shorter repeat-motifs fall into two main categories; interspersed repeats and variable number tandem repeats (VNTR). The interspersed repeats are remnants of transposons and are more abundant than VNTRs [2]. In VNTRs, repeat-motifs...