title: The origin of interspersed repeats in the human genome.
abstract: Over a third of the human genome consists of interspersed repetitive sequences which are primarily degenerate copies of transposable elements. In the past year, the identities of many of these transposable elements were revealed. The emerging concept is that only three mechanisms of amplification are responsible for the vast majority of interspersed repeats and that with each autonomous element a number of dependent non-autonomous sequences have co-amplified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA. asmit@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Smit
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D018626:Retroelements
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D018626:Retroelements