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Alu insertion polymorphisms for the study of human genomic diversity.
Genetics - 1 Sept 2001
Roy-Engel A M, Carroll M L, Vogel E, Garber R K, Nguyen S V, Salem A H, Batzer M A, Deininger P L
Abstract excerpt
Genomic database mining has been a very useful aid in the identification and retrieval of recently integrated Alu elements from the human genome. We analyzed Alu elements retrieved from the GenBank database and identified two new Alu subfamilies, Alu Yb9 and Alu Yc2, and further characterized Yc1 subfamily members. Some members of each of the three subfamilies have inserted in the human genome so recently that...
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