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ReviewFrontiers in genetics2026

The "mobile bricks" of human evolution: how transposable elements shaped human phenotypes.

Giorgia Modenini, Paolo Abondio

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Review in Frontiers in genetics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Giorgia ModeniniDepartment of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Paolo AbondioDepartment of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Far from being "junk" and devoid of function, transposable elements have been identified as players in genomes evolution and regulation, and are also used as valuable genetic markers to study population differentiation. Here we present a detailed review on how transposons participated in human evolution: from adaptation to extreme environments and response to both internal and external stressors, to phenotypes directly emerging from transposon mobilization activities. We dedicate a section to brain plasticity and neuronal differentiation, highlighting the possible role of transposable elements in neuro-psychiatric disorders in the context of emerging hypotheses such as the

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adaptationANCIENT DNAbrainhuman evolutiontransposable elements

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PMCPMC13690969

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