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Identification and characterization of novel polymorphic LINE-1 insertions through comparison of two human genome sequence assemblies.
Gene - 1 Apr 2007
Konkel Miriam K, Wang Jianxin, Liang Ping, Batzer Mark A
Abstract excerpt
Mobile elements represent a relatively new class of markers for the study of human evolution. Long interspersed elements (LINEs) belong to a group of retrotransposons comprising approximately 21% of the human genome. Young LINE-1 (L1) elements that have integrated recently into the human genome can be polymorphic for insertion presence/absence in different human populations at particular chromosomal locations. To...
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