Table 1.

The average read length obtained from Illumina instruments is typically less than 150 nucleotides

Repeat unit (nts)	Max number of repeat unit	SSR length (nts)
Read length = 100 nucleotides (nts)
2	48	96
3	31	94
4	23	92
5	18	90
6	14	88

This length allows to detect di-nucleotide repetition up to 96 nucleotides and 14 repetitions of esa-nucleotide pattern