Ten things you should know about transposable elements

G Bourque, KH Burns, M Gehring, V Gorbunova… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of eukaryotic genomes. However, the
extent of their impact on genome evolution, function, and disease remain a matter of intense …

Transposable elements in human genetic disease

LM Payer, KH Burns - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Transposable elements are abundant in the human genome, and great strides have been
made in pinpointing variations in these repetitive sequences using whole-genome …

Transposable elements in cancer

KH Burns - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Transposable elements give rise to interspersed repeats, sequences that comprise most of
our genomes. These mobile DNAs have been historically underappreciated—both because …

Host–transposon interactions: conflict, cooperation, and cooption

RL Cosby, NC Chang, C Feschotte - Genes & development, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that colonize genomes and
threaten genome integrity. As a result, several mechanisms appear to have emerged during …

Transposable elements as essential elements in the control of gene expression

A Gebrie - Mobile DNA, 2023 - Springer
Interspersed repetitions called transposable elements (TEs), commonly referred to as mobile
elements, make up a significant portion of the genomes of higher animals. TEs contribute in …

Computational tools to unmask transposable elements

P Goerner-Potvin, G Bourque - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of the genome of many species is derived from transposable
elements (TEs). Moreover, through various self-copying mechanisms, TEs continue to …

Our conflict with transposable elements and its implications for human disease

KH Burns - Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Our genome is a historic record of successive invasions of mobile genetic elements. Like
other eukaryotes, we have evolved mechanisms to limit their propagation and minimize the …

Cell fitness screens reveal a conflict between LINE-1 retrotransposition and DNA replication

D Ardeljan, JP Steranka, C Liu, Z Li… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
LINE-1 retrotransposon overexpression is a hallmark of human cancers. We identified a
colorectal cancer wherein a fast-growing tumor subclone downregulated LINE-1, prompting …

[图书][B] Transposable elements: classification, identification, and their use as a tool for comparative genomics

W Makałowski, V Gotea, A Pande, I Makałowska - 2019 - Springer
Most genomes are populated by hundreds of thousands of sequences originated from
mobile elements. On the one hand, these sequences present a real challenge in the process …

Diseases of the nERVous system: retrotransposon activity in neurodegenerative disease

OH Tam, LW Ostrow, M Gale Hammell - Mobile DNA, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Transposable Elements (TEs) are mobile genetic elements whose sequences
constitute nearly half of the human genome. Each TE copy can be present in hundreds to …