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These VNTRs have been observed throughout the prokaryotic and eukaryotic kingdoms [ 14 15 ] . The addition or deletion of repeat units within a locus is believed to be caused by slipped-strand nucleotide mispairing, and/or unequal crossover events which increase the rate of mutation at these loci [ 16 ] . The variations in the number of repeats give rise to molecular alleles for a given locus and aid in the characterization of the individual.