Human endogenous retroviral elements promote genome instability via non-allelic homologous recombination
2014
Background
Recurrent rearrangements of the human genome resulting in disease or variation are mainly mediated by non-allelic homologous recombination (NAHR) between low-copy repeats. However, other genomic structures, including AT-rich palindromes and retroviruses, have also been reported to underlie recurrent structural rearrangements. Notably, recurrent deletions of Yq12 conveying azoospermia, as well as non-pathogenic reciprocal duplications, are mediated by human endogenous retroviral elements (HERVs). We hypothesized that HERV elements throughout the genome can serve as substrates for genomic instability and result in human copy-number variation (CNV).
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