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Whole-genome screening indicates a possible burst of formation of processed pseudogenes and Alu repeats by particular L1 subfamilies in ancestral primates.
Genome biology - 1 Jan 2003
Ohshima Kazuhiko, Hattori Masahira, Yada Tetsusi, Gojobori Takashi, Sakaki Yoshiyuki, Okada Norihiro
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Abundant pseudogenes are a feature of mammalian genomes. Processed pseudogenes (PPs) are reverse transcribed from mRNAs. Recent molecular biological studies show that mammalian long interspersed element 1 (L1)-encoded proteins may have been involved in PP reverse transcription. Here, we present the first comprehensive analysis of human PPs using all known human genes as queries. RESULTS: The human...
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