Recently, several hypermutable motifs were identified in the human genome.
Sofya A. Medvedeva, Alexander Y. Panchin, Andrey V. Alexeevski, Sergey A. Spirin,Yuri V. Panchin 2013, 'Comparative Analysis of Context-Dependent Mutagenesis in Humans and Fruit Flies',International Journal of Genomicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/173616. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Early bacterial genomic studies identified the multiplicity and virulence-associatedfunctions of these hypermutable sequences.
Fadil A. Bidmos, Christopher D. Bayliss 2014, 'Genomic and Global Approaches to Unravelling How Hypermutable Sequences InfluenceBacterial Pathogenesis', Pathogenshttp://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/3/1/164. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Microsatellites or short sequence repeats are widespread genetic markers which are hypermutable 1-6bp long short nucleotide motifs.
Abdullah Farhan Ul Haque Saeed, Shihua eWang, Rongzhi eWang 2016, 'Microsatellites in pursuit of microbial genome evolution', Frontiers in Microbiologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01462/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)