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LINEing germ and embryonic stem cells’ silencing of retrotransposons

Almost half of our genome is occupied by transposable elements. Although most of them are inactive, one type of non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon, long interspersed nuclear element 1 (LINE1), is capable of retrotransposition. Two studies in this issue, Pezic and colleagues (pp. 1410–142...

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Autores principales: Ishiuchi, Takashi, Torres-Padilla, Maria-Elena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24990961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gad.246462.114