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Structure and variability of recently inserted Alu family members.
Nucleic acids research - 11 Dec 1990
Batzer M A, Kilroy G E, Richard P E, Shaikh T H, Desselle T D, Hoppens C L, Deininger P L
Abstract excerpt
The HS subfamily of Alu sequences is comprised of a group of nearly identical members. Individual subfamily members share 97.7% nucleotide identity with each other and 98.9% nucleotide identity with the HS consensus sequence. Individual subfamily members are on the average 2.8 million years old, and were probably derived from a single source 'master' gene sometime after the human/great ape divergence. The recent...
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