L1

The various mobile elements of the human genome. DNA tranposons and retrotransposons. Amongst the retrotransposons, LINE-1 elements are the most important. LINE-1 elements account for up to 20% of the human genome.

Ingo Helbig

Child Neurology Fellow and epilepsy genetics researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), USA and Department of Neuropediatrics, Kiel, Germany

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