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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kojima KK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5753468 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mobile DNA 20180104
Repbase is a comprehensive database of eukaryotic transposable elements (TEs) and repeat sequences, containing over 1300 human repeat sequences. Recent analyses of these repeat sequences have accumulated evidences for their contribution to human evolution through becoming functional elements, such as protein-coding regions or binding sites of transcriptional regulators. However, resolving the origins of repeat sequences is a challenge, due to their age, divergence, and degradation. Ancient repea ...[more]