Phylogenetic roots of Alu-mediated rearrangements leading to cancer.

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There are over a million Alu repetitive elements dispersed throughout the human genome, and a high level of Alu-sequence similarity ensures a strong propensity for unequal crossover events, some of which have lead to deleterious oncogenic rearrangements. Furthermore, Alu insertions introduce consensus 3' splice sites, which potentially facilitate alternative splicing. Not surprisingly, Alu-mediated defective...

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