Alu elements in primates are preferentially lost from areas of high GC content
The currently-accepted dogma when analysing human Alu transposable elements is that ‘young’ Alu elements are found in low GC regions and ‘old’ Alus in high GC regions. The correlation between high GC regions and high gene frequency regions make this observation particularly difficult to explain. Alt...
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PeerJ Inc.
2013-05-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/78.pdf |