Clustering and subfamily relationships of the Alu family in the human genome
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Clustering and subfamily relationships of the Alu family in the human genome
Abstract
Thirteen and 10 sequences of the Alu family of repeated DNA elements found within the human thymidine kinase and beta-tubulin genes, respectively, were compared. These genes have approximately five times the expected density of Alu family members. The consensus sequence that could be drawn from these 23 Alu family members would differ slightly from others drawn from random Alu family sequences but only at very heterogeneous positions. The different Alu family members do show different pairwise percentage identities, with approximately 15% (7 of 48 Alu family members analyzed) of them clearly representing a separate subfamily of sequences. This analysis also confirms the species-specific differences between human and the prosimian Galago crassicaudatus Alu family members. These data are consistent with both the origin of these sequences in primates less than 65-70 Myr ago and amplification since that time to their present 500,000 copies. The data do not show any special relationships among densely clustered Alu family members.
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