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Mobile elements and disease
1 Jun 1998
Abstract excerpt
A substantial fraction of mammalian genomes is composed of mobile elements and their remnants. Recent insertions of LTR-retrotransposons, non-LTR retrotransposons, and non-autonomous retrotransposons have caused disease frequently in mice, but infrequently in humans. Although many of these elements are defective, a number of mammalian non-LTR retrotransposons of the L1 type are capable of autonomous...
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