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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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Genetics |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2019.01244/full |