Retrotransposition, Diversity and the Brain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gage, Fred H. (Editor), Christen, Yves (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Human Genetics.

Retroelements are ancient mobile DNA found in most organisms. Long dismissed as useless, selfish or "junk" DNA, they were thought to be mere intracellular parasites from our distant evolutionary past. Together with their mutant relatives, L1 sequences constitute almost 50% of the mammalian...