‘Sleeping dogs’ threaten the genome as we age

The genomes of many organisms, humans included, are littered with repetitive sequences of DNA called retrotransposons. In a new ‘Perspective’ in the journal Science, four biologists write that while most retrotransposons have become inert ‘fossils’ over evolutionary time, about 100 such rogue elements …

Source: phys.org

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