Human Retrotransposons in Health and Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cristofari, Gael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Stem cells.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Stem Cells.

This unique book explores the role of retrotransposons in human health and disease. The ability of retrotransposons to affect the structure of human genes is recognized since the late 80’s. However, the advances of deep-sequencing technologies have shed new light on the extent of retrotransposon-med...