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Amos Genome Biology 2011,12:110 /2011/12/4/110 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT An enigmatic satellite William Amos* See research article: /2011/12/4/R37 tandem repeats capable of generating complicated, individual-speci?c banding patterns, they named them ‘minisatellites’, as the repeat unit was of the order of a few tens rather than thousands of bases long. e resulting technique, DNA ?ngerprinting, revolutionized the world of genetic markers and led to a new appreciation of how certain sequences can be highly mutable and highly Abstract McLaughlin and Chadw