Itâs easy to remember the meaning of imbalance when you break the word into parts. You might recognize the prefix im-as a way to say ânot.â Combine that with the familiar word balance, and you come up with something that is decidedly out of whack, or not balanced.
DNA Pattern Find. DNA Pattern Find accepts one or more sequences along with a search pattern and returns the number and positions of sites that match the pattern. Use DNA Pattern Find to locate sequence regions that match a consensus sequence of interest. Paste a raw sequence or one or more FASTA sequences into the text area below. White space and digits are removed before the pattern matching is performed. Input limit is 500000 characters.
More About Trinucleotide Repeat. The DNA sequence of some genes contain trinucleotide repeats, like CAG, CAG, CAG. Normally, if a gene has on the order of a dozen repeats, there is not a problem. The expansion of these repeats, however, are associated with several different diseases. The repeats can expand during DNA replication.