Aberrantly High Levels of Somatic LINE-1 Expression and Retrotransposition in Human Neurological Disorders

Retrotransposable elements (RTEs) have actively multiplied over the past 80 million years of primate evolution, and as a consequence, such elements collectively occupy ∼ 40% of the human genome. As RTE activity can have detrimental effects on the human genome and transcriptome, silencing mechanisms...

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Main Authors: Diane M. Terry, Scott E. Devine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
Subjects:
L1
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2019.01244/full