Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Transposable element-mediated rearrangements are prevalent in human genomes

  • Parithi Balachandran,
  • Isha A. Walawalkar,
  • Jacob I. Flores,
  • Jacob N. Dayton,
  • Peter A. Audano,
  • Christine R. Beck

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34810-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Here the authors show that transposable element-mediated rearrangements impact more than 500 kbp of an average human genome, are a source of individual variation, a substrate for evolutionary change, and can occur through diverse mechanisms.