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Preferred term

Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • LINE Repeat Sequence
  • LINE Repeat Sequences
  • Long Interspersed DNA Sequence Elements
  • Repeat Sequence, LINE
  • Repeat Sequences, LINE
  • Sequence, LINE Repeat
  • Sequences, LINE Repeat

Scope note

  • Highly repeated sequences, 6K-8K base pairs in length, which contain RNA polymerase II promoters. They also have an open reading frame that is related to the reverse transcriptase of retroviruses but they do not contain LTRs (long terminal repeats). Copies of the LINE 1 (L1) family form about 15% of the human genome. The jockey elements of Drosophila are LINEs.

History note

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020084

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