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Mechanical Properties of Special DNA Sequences
Diverse genetic diseases have been attributed to a presence of nucleotide repeat DNA sequences, the so-called microsatellites (MS). It is still unkown why MS cause these diseases. In this work we have investigated, through Molecular Dynamics simulations, how the presence of specific MS affect the DNA mechanical properties. Our preliminary results show that the presence of these repeats make the DNA “softer” to mechanical elongation under force deformation.