title: Characterization of the primate-specific repetitive DNA element MER1.
abstract: Computer analyses of the 3'-flanking DNA sequence of the human elastase I gene revealed a significant degree of similarity with seven human gene sequences in the GenBank and EMBL databases. Genomic Southern analysis indicates that the shared nucleotide sequences are a primate-specific family of short interspersed elements. These elements are members of MER1 sequences (medium reiteration frequency sequences). The consensus sequence of MER1 repeats spans 543 nucleotides and contains several inverted repeats. Since the copy number of MER1 elements seems to be much smaller than that of Alu and L1 repeats, MER1 elements may provide useful landmarks marks for human genome mapping.
authors.affiliation: Bioscience Research Laboratories, Sankyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kawashima
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mita-Honjo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takiguchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010196:Pancreatic Elastase / Q000235:genetics; D011323:Primates / Q000235:genetics; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D010196:Pancreatic Elastase