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Alu: a parasite's parasite?

Nature Genetics volume 35, pages 15–16 (2003)Cite this article

The technical problem of detecting the retrotransposition—amplification and genomic dispersion of sequences through an RNA intermediate—of Pol III–directed transcripts has been solved. This provides a long-sought experimental system to learn how Alu repeats amplified to a high copy number in human DNA.

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Figure 1: Co-compartmentalization of Alu RNA and LINE1 mRNA with cis-acting ORF2p.

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