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Evidence is accumulating that the two major families of interspersed repeated human DNA sequences, Alu and L1, are not randomly distributed. However, only limited information is available on their relative long-range distribution. We have analyzed a set of randomly selected, human Chromosome (Chr) 11-specific YAC recombinants constituting a total length of about 2 Mbp for the local and global distribution of Alu and L1 repeats: the data show a strong asymmetry in the distribution of these two repeat classes and give weight, at the long-range molecular level, to previous studies indicating their partition in the human genome; they also suggest a strong tendency for L1 repeats to cluster, with a higher proportion of full-length elements than expected.
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Arveiler, B., Porteous, D.J. Distribution of Alu and L1 repeats in human YAC recombinants. Mammalian Genome 3, 661–668 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00444360
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