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Non-traditional Alu evolution and primate genomic diversity.
Journal of molecular biology - 8 Mar 2002
Roy-Engel Astrid M, Carroll Marion L, El-Sawy Mohamed, Salem Abdel-Halim, Garber Randall K, Nguyen Son V, Deininger Prescott L, Batzer Mark A
Abstract excerpt
Alu elements belonging to the previously identified "young" subfamilies are thought to have inserted in the human genome after the divergence of humans from non-human primates and therefore should not be present in non-human primate genomes. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based screening of over 500 Alu insertion loci resulted in the recovery of a few "young" Alu elements that also resided at orthologous...
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