A comprehensive map of mobile element insertion polymorphisms in humans.

As a consequence of the accumulation of insertion events over evolutionary time, mobile elements now comprise nearly half of the human genome. The Alu, L1, and SVA mobile element families are still duplicating, generating variation between individual genomes. Mobile element insertions (MEI) have bee...

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Main Authors: Chip Stewart, Deniz Kural, Michael P Strömberg, Jerilyn A Walker, Miriam K Konkel, Adrian M Stütz, Alexander E Urban, Fabian Grubert, Hugo Y K Lam, Wan-Ping Lee, Michele Busby, Amit R Indap, Erik Garrison, Chad Huff, Jinchuan Xing, Michael P Snyder, Lynn B Jorde, Mark A Batzer, Jan O Korbel, Gabor T Marth, 1000 Genomes Project
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3158055?pdf=render