Fraction of genome generated by retrotransposition
| Value | >=40 % |
|---|---|
| Organism | Human Homo sapiens |
| Reference | Terai G, Yoshizawa A, Okida H, Asai K, Mituyama T. Discovery of short pseudogenes derived from messenger RNAs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Mar38(4):1163-71 abstractPubMed ID19965772 |
| Comments | More than 40% of the human genome is generated by retrotransposition, a series of in vivo processes involving reverse transcription of RNA molecules and integration of the transcripts into the genomic sequence. Better ref needed |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 106794 |