Retroviruses cause cancer through the action of genes that alter growth; these genes are flanked by short ALU-like repeats.

Her heels tapped loudly on the bare wood steps, like the short repeat of a handgun.

Those with fewer are known as microsatellites or short tandem repeats.

Its resolving power is much lower than targeted, species specific DNA comparison methods, such as short tandem repeats.

As short tandem repeats are generally 1-6 base pairs in length and are often consecutive, their identification is relatively simple.

Microsatellite: Very short repeats of nucleotides.

He had used short tandem repeats, or STR, and already had results.

Anglia Television then commenced a short repeat of the first 40 episodes shortly after reaching the end.

These regions, called "variable number short tandem repeats" are what is looked at when performing STR analysis.

An STR multiplex system is used to quickly identify specific short tandem repeats.