Mono-allelic retrotransposon insertion addresses epigenetic transcriptional repression in human genome

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Retrotransposons have been extensively studied in plants and animals and have been shown to have an impact on human genome dynamics and evolution. Their ability to move within genomes gives retrotransposons to affect genome instabili...

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Main Authors: Byun Hyang-Min, Heo Kyu, Mitchell Kasey J, Yang Allen S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-02-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Science
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Online Access:http://www.jbiomedsci.com/content/19/1/13