“…Furthermore, minisatellite VNTRs have been associated with a variety of diseases (53, 54, 55), including neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (36, 56, 57) and Huntington’s disease (28, 58), and other psychiatric conditions, such as PTSD (59), ADHD (60, 61), depression (62), and addiction (63). VNTRs have been shown to be risk factors in various cancers (64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74) and have been linked to cancer prognosis and outcome (75,76,77,78,79,80). Commercial cancer diagnosis kits using minisatellite VNTRs have been introduced (81) and it has been proposed that VNTRs associated with cancers be used for targeted sequencing in personalized therapies (82, 83, 84).…”