Association of endogenous retroviruses and long terminal repeats with human disorders

Since the human genome sequences became available in 2001, our knowledge about the human transposable elements which comprise ~40% of the total nucleotides has been expanding. Non- LTR (long terminal repeat) retrotransposons are actively transposing in the present-day human genome, and have been fou...

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Main Authors: Iyoko eKatoh, Shun-ichi eKurata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
LTR
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2013.00234/full