Sentences with phrase «mobile element insertions»
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«Insertion of some transposable elements can affect the expression and function of protein - coding genes, so the cessation of mobile DNA activity may have slowed the rate of evolution of both genome structure and gene function.»
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Novel insertions of mobile elements into the sequenced genome are identified as clusters of reads that uniquely map to the reference genome with one arm and to ubiquitous sequence with the other arm.
The location, type, and orientation of the inserted elements are identified using mate pairs that map in the vicinity of the insertion site, aligning each unmapped arm to sequences of a defined set of mobile elements.