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Satellite blocks of 20 kilobases (kb) to 1 Mb are interrupted by 'islands' of 5-50 kb of complex sequences that contain a high density of transposable elements [ 22, 28, 29, 30].
In addition to the exon III polymorphism, Barr and colleagues [ 33 ] examined the distributions of a 120-bp repeat 1.2 kilobases upstream to the transcription start site and a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) defined by a C to T substitution at position -521 in ADHD populations.
PdL is 8.4 kilobases (kb) long and contains the P element inverted repeats, the mini-white+ transformation marker gene, and the 500 base-pair (bp) tet-on promoter directed out through the 3' end of the element.
At around 270 kilobases (kb), these are manageable by most analysis programs and provide a convenient unit of work for the curators.
But, if a substantial portion of the reduction has occurred as large deletion events spanning many kilobases and functionally unrelated genes, the set of genes lost is more reasonably interpreted as the result of selection acting on the composite fitness effects of the set of loci deleted.