polycytosine

Etymology

From poly- + cytosine.

noun

  1. A nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base“Length heteroplasmy occured^([sic]) frequently within the polycytosine stretches of HVS-I (anywhere between positions 16188 and 16195) and HVS-II (around position 310) due to replication slippage when a specific minimum number of cytosine residues are present [8, 14 ].”