Co-option of an endogenous retrovirus (LTR7-HERVH) in early human embryogenesis: becoming useful and going unnoticed
Abstract While it is straightforward to understand why most mutations affecting functional sequence are harmful, how genomic changes result in new beneficial traits is harder to understand. Domestication of transposable elements (TEs) is an important source of both new genes and new regulatory syste...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Mobile DNA |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-025-00361-0 |
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