The (r)evolution of SINE versus LINE distributions in primate genomes: Sex chromosomes are important

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Human sex chromosome (X, Y) versus autosome (A) distribution of observed (A) and corrected (B) densities of Alus in 1-Mb windows genome-wide. (A) Observed densities are plotted for Alu elements of various evolutionary ages including human-specific AluYs; human–chimpanzee branch-specific (HC) AluYs; and human–chimpanzee–orangutan branch-specific (HCO) AluYs; AluS and AluJ subfamilies, on the autosomes (white), X (light gray), and Y (dark gray) chromosomes. (B) Residuals from genome-wide multiple regression models represent densities corrected for local variation in genome landscape features. Notches on boxplots indicate the 95% confidence interval of the median.

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  1. Genome Res. 20: 600-613

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