Human Genome Projects Flashcards
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Long interspersed nuclear elements are a specific type of interspersed repeat element that encode the proteins necessary for their own replication.
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Short interspersed nuclear elements are a specific type of interspersed repeat element that does not encode the proteins necessary for their own replication
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Structural variation in the human genome
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- Interspersed repeats comprise ~45% of the human genome
- segmental duplications comprise about 4% of the human genome
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