Structure and function of the human genome

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Figure 4.
Figure 4.

The recreation of an ancestral DNA sequence. This is an example based upon a MER20 retrotransposon. The sequence labeled “PRED.ANC.” at the bottom is the prediction of the ancestral MER20 sequence. Reproduced and modified with permission from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press © 2004, Blanchette et al. (2004).

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  1. Genome Res. 15: 1759-1766

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