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SVA retrotransposons: Evolution and genetic instability.
Seminars in cancer biology - 1 Aug 2010
Hancks Dustin C, Kazazian Haig H
Abstract excerpt
SINE-VNTR-Alus (SVA) are non-autonomous hominid specific retrotransposons that are associated with disease in humans. SVAs are evolutionarily young and presumably mobilized by the LINE-1 reverse transcriptase in trans. SVAs are currently active and may impact the host through a variety of mechanisms including insertional mutagenesis, exon shuffling, alternative splicing, and the generation of differentially...
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