Hypothesis: For the worst and for the best, L1Hs retrotransposons actively participate in the evolution of the human centromeric alphoid sequences

Chromosome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 305-317

  Laurent, Anne Marie ^a   Puechberty, Jacques ^a   Roizès, Gérard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

Alpha satellite; Centromere; L1Hs; Remodelling

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DNA; DNA, SATELLITE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 0032864843     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009283015738     Document Type: Article

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