The most common classes of retrotransposable elements in the human genome are short interspersed elements (SINEs) and LINEs. The Alu element, present in over 10 6 copies per haploid genome, is the ...
Alu elements are a class of short interspersed elements (SINEs) that have expanded to a copy number of more than one million elements in primate genomes. The expansion of Alu elements is characterized ...