The role of recombination in the origin and evolution of Alu subfamilies.

Alus are the most abundant and successful short interspersed nuclear elements found in primate genomes. In humans, they represent about 10% of the genome, although few are retrotransposition-competent and are clustered into subfamilies according to the source gene from which they evolved. Recombinat...

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Main Authors: Ana Teixeira-Silva, Raquel M Silva, João Carneiro, António Amorim, Luísa Azevedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3672193?pdf=render