L1 Retrotransposons Are Transcriptionally Active in Hippocampus of Rat Brain

LINE1 (L1) is an autonomous, non-LTR retrotransposon and the L1 family of retrotransposons constitute around 17%, 20% and 23% in the human, mouse and rat genomes respectively. Under normal physiological conditions, the retroelements remain by and large transcriptionally silent but are activated in r...

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Main Authors: Somnath Mukherjee, Deepak Sharma, Kailash C. Upadhyaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karolinum Press 2016-01-01
Series:Prague Medical Report
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Online Access:https://pmr.lf1.cuni.cz/117/1/0042/

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