ReviewScientifica2012
Alu mobile elements: from junk DNA to genomic gems.
Review in Scientifica, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Structural Variations of Alu Elements in the Kuwaiti Population: Laying the Foundations for Forensic Medicine.Annals of human genetics · 2026Article
- Copy Number Variations in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia-Related Genes: Evaluation of an Iranian Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Cohort and Literature Review.Molecular syndromology · 2023Article
- Analysis of estrogen-regulated enhancer RNAs identifies a functional motif required for enhancer assembly and gene expression.Cell reports · 2022Article
- B1 repetitive sequence methylation enhances wound healing of second-degree burns in rats.Biomedical reports · 2022Article
- A human specific Alu DNA cassette is found flanking the genes of transcription factor AP2.BMC research notes · 2019Article
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- Frequency of Alu insertions within the ACE and PR loci in Northwestern Mexicans.BMC research notes · 2017Article
- High-resolution RNA allelotyping along the inactive X chromosome: evidence of RNA polymerase III in regulating chromatin configuration.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Footprint of APOBEC3 on the genome of human retroelements.Journal of virology · 2013Article
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Abstract
Alus, the short interspersed repeated sequences (SINEs), are retrotransposons that litter the human genomes and have long been considered junk DNA. However, recent findings that these mobile elements are transcribed, both as distinct RNA polymerase III transcripts and as a part of RNA polymerase II transcripts, suggest biological functions and refute the notion that Alus are biologically unimportant. Indeed, Alu RNAs have been shown to control mRNA processing at several levels, to have complex regulatory functions such as transcriptional repression and modulating alternative splicing and to cause a host of human genetic diseases. Alu RNAs embedded in Pol II transcripts can promote evolution and proteome diversity, which further indicates that these mobile retroelements are in fact genomic gems rather than genomic junks.
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