"Alu Elements" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The Alu sequence family (named for the restriction endonuclease cleavage enzyme Alu I) is the most highly repeated interspersed repeat element in humans (over a million copies). It is derived from the 7SL RNA component of the SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE and contains an RNA polymerase III promoter. Transposition of this element into coding and regulatory regions of genes is responsible for many heritable diseases.
Descriptor ID |
D020087
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MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.570.080.708.330.800.800.050 G05.360.080.708.330.800.800.050 G05.360.340.024.425.800.800.050
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Concept/Terms |
Alu Elements- Alu Elements
- Alu Element
- Element, Alu
- Elements, Alu
- Alu Family
- Alu Families
- Families, Alu
- Family, Alu
- Alu Repetitive Sequences
- Alu Repetitive Sequence
- Repetitive Sequence, Alu
- Repetitive Sequences, Alu
- Sequence, Alu Repetitive
- Sequences, Alu Repetitive
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2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Alu Elements" by people in Profiles.
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RNA transcription and degradation of Alu retrotransposons depends on sequence features and evolutionary history. G3 (Bethesda). 2022 05 06; 12(5).
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Circulating cell-free DNA variables as marker of ovarian cancer patients: A pilot study. Cancer Biomark. 2020; 28(2):159-167.
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Circulating free DNA integrity and concentration as independent prognostic markers in metastatic breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 May; 169(1):69-82.
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Plasma DNA integrity as a biomarker for primary and metastatic breast cancer and potential marker for early diagnosis. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2014 Jul; 146(1):163-74.
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Identification of an Alu-mediated 12.2-kb deletion of the complete LPAR6 (P2RY5) gene in a Turkish family with hypotrichosis and woolly hair. Exp Dermatol. 2012 Jun; 21(6):469-71.
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Single particle adsorbing transfer system. Biomed Microdevices. 2009 Jun; 11(3):609-14.
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Minimal conditions for exonization of intronic sequences: 5' splice site formation in alu exons. Mol Cell. 2004 Apr 23; 14(2):221-31.
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AluGene: a database of Alu elements incorporated within protein-coding genes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 01; 32(Database issue):D489-92.