Editing Microsatellite (section)

===Effects within transposons===
Almost 50% of the human genome is contained in various types of transposable elements (also called transposons, or 'jumping genes'), and many of them contain repetitive DNA.<ref name="Sherer 2008">{{cite book | vauthors = Scherer S |date=2008 |title=A short guide to the human genome |location=New York |publisher=Cold Spring Harbor University Press}}</ref> It is probable that short sequence repeats in those locations are also involved in the regulation of gene expression.<ref name="Tomilin 2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Tomilin NV | title = Regulation of mammalian gene expression by retroelements and non-coding tandem repeats | journal = BioEssays | volume = 30 | issue = 4 | pages = 338–48 | date = April 2008 | pmid = 18348251 | doi = 10.1002/bies.20741 | doi-access = free }}</ref>