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Sequence Tagged Sites

"Sequence Tagged Sites" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Short tracts of DNA sequence that are used as landmarks in GENOME mapping. In most instances, 200 to 500 base pairs of sequence define a Sequence Tagged Site (STS) that is operationally unique in the human genome (i.e., can be specifically detected by the polymerase chain reaction in the presence of all other genomic sequences). The overwhelming advantage of STSs over mapping landmarks defined in other ways is that the means of testing for the presence of a particular STS can be completely described as information in a database.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sequence Tagged Sites" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Sequence Tagged Sites" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 66 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 1997
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