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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Batzer MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC332733 | biostudies-other | 1990 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nucleic acids research 19901201 23
The HS subfamily of Alu sequences is comprised of a group of nearly identical members. Individual subfamily members share 97.7% nucleotide identity with each other and 98.9% nucleotide identity with the HS consensus sequence. Individual subfamily members are on the average 2.8 million years old, and were probably derived from a single source 'master' gene sometime after the human/great ape divergence. The recent Alu family member insertions provide a better image of the structure of Alu retropos ...[more]