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The insertional history of an active family of L1 retrotransposons in humans.
Genome research - 1 Jul 2004
Boissinot Stéphane, Entezam Ali, Young Lynn, Munson Peter J, Furano Anthony V
Abstract excerpt
As humans contain a currently active L1 (LINE-1) non-LTR retrotransposon family (Ta-1), the human genome database likely provides only a partial picture of Ta-1-generated diversity. We used a non-biased method to clone Ta-1 retrotransposon-containing loci from representatives of four ethnic populations. We obtained 277 distinct Ta-1 loci and identified an additional 67 loci in the human genome database. This...
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