Alu insertional elements, the most abundant class of SINEs in humans are dimeric
sequences approximately 300 bp in length derived from the 7SL RNA gene. These …

Changing demographics and the need to know what we eat has fueled a drastic rise in
consumer awareness and hence the demand for certification by government and regulatory …

We describe a method combining in a single-round polymerase chain reaction
amplifications of both cytochrome b and hypervariable D-loop mitochondrial DNA allowing …

The insertion of mobile elements into the genome represents a new class of genetic markers
for the study of human evolution. Long interspersed elements (LINEs) have amplified to a …

Data on human genetic variation help scientists to understand human origins, susceptibility
to illness and genetic causes of disease. Destructive episodes in the history of genetic …

A rapid PCR-based assay was used to study the distribution of 5 polymorphic Alu insertions
in 895 unrelated individuals from 30 populations, 24 from North, Central, and South …

We isolated adherent fibroblastic cells after collagenase and dispase treatment of human
dental pulp. When human dental pulp cells (hDPCs) were cultured in the presence of basic …

The neuroligins are a family of proteins that are thought to mediate cell to cell interactions
between neurons. During the sequencing at an Xq13 locus associated with a mental …

Alu sequences constitute the most abundant family of short interspersed nuclear elements,
SINEs, in the primate genome. The Alu-PCR method, which consists of amplification …

Alu elements, the largest family of interspersed repeats, mobilize throughout the genomes of
primates by retroposition. Alu are present in humans in an excess of 500 000 copies per …