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A comprehensive analysis of recently integrated human Ta L1 elements.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 2002
Myers Jeremy S, Vincent Bethaney J, Udall Hunt, Watkins W Scott, Morrish Tammy A, Kilroy Gail E, Swergold Gary D, Henke Jurgen, Henke Lotte, Moran John V, Jorde Lynn B, Batzer Mark A
Abstract excerpt
The Ta (transcribed, subset a) subfamily of L1 LINEs (long interspersed elements) is characterized by a 3-bp ACA sequence in the 3' untranslated region and contains approximately 520 members in the human genome. Here, we have extracted 468 Ta L1Hs (L1 human specific) elements from the draft human genomic sequence and screened individual elements using polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) assays to determine their...
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