| URL: | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/theoreticalgenomics/data-software |
| Full name: | microsatellite marker and tightly linked SNPs |
| Description: | SNPSTR catalogues a relatively new type of compound genetic marker called SNPSTR which combines a microsatellite marker (STR) with one or more tightly linked SNPs. |
| Year founded: | 2007 |
| Last update: | 2007-01-01 |
| Version: | v1.0 |
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| Country/Region: | United Kingdom |
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| University/Institution: | Imperial College London |
| Address: | Wolfson Building, London SW7 2AZ, UK |
| City: | London |
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| Country/Region: | United Kingdom |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | I. Agrafioti |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | m.stumpf@imperial.ac.uk |
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SNPSTR: a database of compound microsatellite-SNP markers. [PMID: 17202172]
There has been widespread and growing interest in genetic markers suitable for drawing population genetic inferences about past demographic events and to detect the effects of selection. In addition to single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), microsatellites (or short tandem repeats, STRs) have received great attention in the analysis of human population history. In the SNPSTR database (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/theoreticalgenomics/data-software) we catalogue a relatively new type of compound genetic marker called SNPSTR which combines a microsatellite marker (STR) with one or more tightly linked SNPs. Here, the SNP(s) and the microsatellite are less than 250 bp apart so each SNPSTR can be considered a small haplotype with no recombination occurring between the two individual markers. Thus, SNPSTRs have the potential to become a very useful tool in the field of population genetics. The SNPSTR database contains all inferable human SNPSTRs as well as those in mouse, rat, dog and chicken, i.e. all model organisms for which extensive SNP datasets are available. |