Maintenance of transposon-free regions throughout vertebrate evolution

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We recently reported the existence of large numbers of regions up to 80 kb long that lack transposon insertions in the human, mouse and opossum genomes. These regions are significantly associated with loci involved in developmental a...

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Main Authors: Mattick John S, Pheasant Michael, Makunin Igor V, Simons Cas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-12-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/470