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Retrotransposons influence the mouse transcriptome: implication for the divergence of genetic traits.
Genetics - 1 Jun 2007
Horie Kyoji, Saito Ei-Suke, Keng Vincent W, Ikeda Ryuji, Ishihara Hiroshi, Takeda Junji
Abstract excerpt
Massive accumulation of retrotransposons, comprising >40% of human and mouse genomes, is one of the major events in the evolution of the genome. However, most retrotransposons have lost retrotransposition competency, which makes studying their role in genome evolution elusive. Intracisternal A-particle (IAP) elements are long terminal repeat (LTR)-type mouse retrotransposons consisting of full-length and...
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