Full-length L1 elements have arisen recently in the same 1-kb region of the gorilla and human genomes.

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Full-length L1 elements have arisen recently in the same 1-kb region of the gorilla and human genomes.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Sept 1998

DeBerardinis R J, Kazazian H H

Abstract excerpt

New copies of the mammalian retrotransposon L1 arise in the germline at an undetermined rate. Each new L1 copy appears at a specific evolutionary time point that can be estimated by phylogenetic analysis. In humans, the active L1 sequence L1.2 resides at the genomic locus LRE1. Here we analyzed t...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Base Sequence
Chromosome Mapping
Evolution, Molecular
Gene Frequency
Genome, Human
Gorilla gorilla
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Open Reading Frames
Phylogeny
Retroelements
Sequence Analysis, DNA

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