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L1 mobile element expression causes multiple types of toxicity.
Gene - 1 Aug 2008
Wallace Nicholas A, Belancio Victoria P, Deininger Prescott L
Abstract excerpt
LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposons represent one of the most successful families of autonomous retroelements, accounting for at least 17% of the human genome. The expression of these elements can be deleterious to a cell. L1 expression has been shown to result in insertional mutagenesis, genomic deletions and rearrangements as well as double-strand DNA breaks. Also, L1 expression has been linked to the induction of...
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