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Table 1 Human-specific and chimpanzee-specific insertions with ≥5bp TSDs

From: Different integration site structures between L1 protein-mediated retrotransposition in cis and retrotransposition in trans

 

Human-specific

Chimp-specific

Total

6197

2910

   L1

1120

948

   Alu

4197

1357

   SVA

368

109

   HERV and solo LTR

63

41

   mRNA retrocopy

48

95

   ncRNA retrocopy

14

13

   DNA transposon

0

0

   Uncharacterized*

387

347

  1. Uncharacterized includes elements with nested insertion, internal deletion, internal duplication, 3' truncation, and template switch.
  2. L1, long interspersed nuclear element-1; HERV, human endogenous retrovirus; LTR, long terminal repeat; mRNA, messenger RNA; ncRNA, non-coding RNA.
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