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Genomic annotated ERV structures and evolutionary ages of various ERV families |
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| Name |
Total copy number* |
Full length† |
Evolutionary age of origin (Mya) |
Reference‡ |
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| MLT1 |
160 k |
36 k |
>100 |
[34] |
| MST |
34 k |
5,175 |
75 |
[34] |
| THE1 |
37 k |
9,019 |
55 |
[34] |
| HERV-L (MLT2) |
25 k |
4,777 |
>80 |
[35] |
| HERV-W |
675 |
242 |
40-55 |
[36] |
| HERV-E |
1,138 |
294 |
25 |
[37] |
| HERV-H |
2,508 |
1,284 |
>40 |
[38] |
| HERV9 |
4,837 |
697 |
15 |
[39] |
| HERV-K (HML2) |
1,206 |
178 |
30 |
[40, 41] |
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*Including LTRs with no internal sequence and LTRs with associated internal sequence (see Materials and methods). †Elements including both LTR and internal sequence. ‡Representative references with descriptions of each ERV family. Mya, million years ago. | ||||
van de Lagemaat et al. Genome Biology 2006 7:R86 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-9-r86 |
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