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Alu family interspersed repetitive DNA sequences that occur nearly a million times in the human genome. So called because they are cleaved by the restriction enzyme AluI. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In his past
work, Hammer has studied an Alu sequence that in some men sits at a
particular site on the Y chromosome. YAP is an Alu sequence that hopped to a specific site on the Y
chromosome at a relatively recent moment in human evolution. Now, for the
first time, geneticists have shown that an Alu sequence can wrggle out
of its usual place between genes and splice itself into a working gene,
causing a disease, says Collins. |
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