Alu sequences, the most abundant class of large dispersed DNA repeats in human
chromosomes, contribute to human genome dynamics. Recently we reported that long …

Alus are the most abundant and successful short interspersed nuclear elements found in
primate genomes. In humans, they represent about 10% of the genome, although few are …

Alu insertion polymorphisms (polymorphisms consisting of the presence/absence of an Alu
element at a particular chromosomal location) offer several advantages over other nuclear …

During the past 65 million years, Alu elements have propagated to more than one million
copies in primate genomes, which has resulted in the generation of a series of Alu …

With more than 1.2 million copies, Alu elements are one of the most important sources of
structural variation in primate genomes. Here, we compare the chimpanzee and human …

Alu elements are primate-specific members of the SINE (s hort in terspersed e lement)
retroposon family, which comprise∼ 10% of the human genome. Here we report the first …

Alu elements are a family of short interspersed repeats that have mobilized throughout
primate genomes by retrotransposition over the past 65 Myr of primate evolution (for a …

Abstract Background Polymorphic Alu elements account for 17% of structural variants in the
human genome. The majority of these belong to the youngest AluY subfamilies, and most …

Early studies of human Alu retrotransposons focused on their origin, evolution and biological
properties, but current focus is shifting toward the effect of Alu elements on evolution of the …

A comprehensive analysis of the human sex chromosomes was undertaken to assess Alu-
associated human genomic diversity and to identify novel Alu insertion polymorphisms for …