Alu Elements

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Alu Insertion Polymorphisms as Evidence for Population Structure in Baboons. 
  • Circular RNAs are abundant, conserved, and associated with ALU repeats. 
  • DICER1 deficit induces Alu RNA toxicity in age-related macular degeneration. 
  • DNA methylation of individual repetitive elements in hepatitis C virus infection-induced hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • Mutations in the lysyl hydroxylase 1 gene that result in enzyme deficiency and the clinical phenotype of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI. 
  • New techniques for DNA sequence classification. 
  • Prediction of genome-wide DNA methylation in repetitive elements. 
  • Social factors and leukocyte DNA methylation of repetitive sequences: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • The Alu neurodegeneration hypothesis: A primate-specific mechanism for neuronal transcription noise, mitochondrial dysfunction, and manifestation of neurodegenerative disease. 
  • The pattern of gene amplification is determined by the chromosomal location of hairpin-capped breaks. 
  • Warning SINEs: Alu elements, evolution of the human brain, and the spectrum of neurological disease.