Human-specific HERV-K insertion causes genomic variations in the human genome.

Human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) sequences account for about 8% of the human genome. Through comparative genomics and literature mining, we identified a total of 29 human-specific HERV-K insertions. We characterized them focusing on their structure and flanking sequence. The results showed that...

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Main Authors: Wonseok Shin, Jungnam Lee, Seung-Yeol Son, Kung Ahn, Heui-Soo Kim, Kyudong Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3625200?pdf=render