Titlebook: Retrotransposition, Diversity and the Brain; Fred H. Gage,Yves Christen Conference proceedings 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

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Ancient Retrotransposons as Possible Remnants of the Primitive RNPWorld,nsposable elements are mostly represented by retroelements, which account for about half of the genome content in mammals and replicate by means of an obligatory RNA intermediate. According to the “RNA world” hypothesis, one step of the “prebiotic life” would correspond to populations of small RNA m

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Human Diversity and L1 Retrotransposon Biology: Creation of New Genes and Individual Variation in Res for human diversity. In this paper,we discuss one further mechanism bywhich L1 can alter the genome, namely the retrotransposition of a transcript involving sequences from twoadjacent genes toformanewgene. Inaddition, a small fractionof L1elements inthe human genome is still actively retrotranspo