Evidence that most human Alu sequences were inserted in a process that ceased about 30 million years ago.

doi:10.1073/pnas.91.13.6148

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Evidence that most human Alu sequences were inserted in a process that ceased about 30 million years ago.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Jun 1994

Britten R J

Abstract excerpt

The primate Alu interspersed repeats can be subdivided into classes on the basis of shared nucleotides at a set of diagnostic positions. Each of the classes of Alu sequences is apparently the result of past retrotransposition of transcripts of highly conserved class-specific source genes that dif...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Conserved Sequence
DNA
DNA Transposable Elements
Genetic Variation
Hominidae
Humans
Models, Genetic
Poisson Distribution
Primates
Time

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