Impact of non-LTR retrotransposons in the differentiation and evolution of anatomically modern humans.

Etienne GuichardValentina PeonaGuidantonio Malagoli TagliazucchiLucia AbitanteEvelyn JagodaMargherita MusellaMarco RicciAlejandro Rubio-RoldánStefania SarnoDonata LuiselliDavide PettenerCristian TaccioliLuca PaganiJose Luis Garcia-PerezAlessio Boattini

Published in: Mobile DNA (2018)

Our results strongly suggest that N-LTRr impacted our differentiation as a species, most likely inducing an increase in neural complexity, and have been a constant source of genomic variability all throughout the evolution of the human lineage.

Keyphrases

endothelial cells
copy number
pluripotent stem cells
gene expression