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SUBMITTER: Salvador-Palomeque C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6425141 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Salvador-Palomeque Carmen C Sanchez-Luque Francisco J FJ Fortuna Patrick R J PRJ Ewing Adam D AD Wolvetang Ernst J EJ Richardson Sandra R SR Faulkner Geoffrey J GJ
Molecular and cellular biology 20190319 7
The retrotransposon LINE-1 (L1) is a significant source of endogenous mutagenesis in humans. In each individual genome, a few retrotransposition-competent L1s (RC-L1s) can generate new heritable L1 insertions in the early embryo, primordial germ line, and germ cells. L1 retrotransposition can also occur in the neuronal lineage and cause somatic mosaicism. Although DNA methylation mediates L1 promoter repression, the temporal pattern of methylation applied to individual RC-L1s during neurogenesis ...[more]