09730 IUPAC Gold Book - tandem repeat sequence 10.1351/goldbook.09730 09730 current 1 Multiple consecutive copies of the same nucleotide sequence on a chromosome. Tandem repeat sequences can be used as markers in physical mapping e.g. by DNA profiling. DNA profiling https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09700 nucleotide sequence https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09712 PAC, 2018, 90, 1121. 'Terminology of bioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2018)' on page 1153 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1120) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09730/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09730/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09730/plain Citation: 'tandem repeat sequence' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.09730 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-08-04T18:43:26+00:00