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Comprehensive analysis of two Alu Yd subfamilies.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 2003
Xing Jinchuan, Salem Abdel-Halim, Hedges Dale J, Kilroy Gail E, Watkins W Scott, Schienman John E, Stewart Caro-Beth, Jurka Jerzy, Jorde Lynn B, Batzer Mark A
Abstract excerpt
Alu elements have inserted in the human genome throughout primate evolution. A small number of Alu insertions have occurred after the divergence of humans from nonhuman primates and therefore should not be present in nonhuman primate genomes. Most of these recently integrated Alu elements are contained with a series of discrete Alu subfamilies that are related to each other based upon diagnostic nucleotide...
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