Marker Based Studies

Marker Based Studies

During the last years, simple sequence repeats (SSRs, also known as microsatellites) and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have become the most popular molecular markers for describing neutral genetic variation in populations of a wide range of organisms. SSRs are generally abundant and polymorphic in non-expressed genomic regions and consequently considered to be selectively neutral. However, SSR loci can also occur in regions of chromosomes (for example, telomeres or centromeres) involved in gene transcription, translation, chromatin organization or recombination. We use capilary based sequencing technology for identification of this.