Recently transposed Alu repeats result from multiple source genes.

doi:10.1093/nar/18.20.6019

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Recently transposed Alu repeats result from multiple source genes.

Nucleic acids research - 25 Oct 1990

Matera A G, Hellmann U, Hintz M F, Schmid C W

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A human Alu repeat subfamily (the PV subfamily) whose members include insertional polymorphisms is found, as predicted, to differ by five tightly linked mutations relative to another subfamily of recently inserted Alu repeats. Based on these sequence differences some of the small number of polymo...

Topics

Base Sequence
DNA Transposable Elements
Gene Library
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Multigene Family
Mutation
Oligonucleotide Probes
Polymorphism, Genetic
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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