Alu sequence
An Alu sequence is a short stretch of DNA originally characterized by the action of the Alu restriction endonuclease. Alu sequences of different kinds occur in large numbers in primate genomes.
SINEs (mostly Alu sequences) and LINEs cause only a small percentage of human mutations.
And now Yuki could construct a family tree of these Alu sequences, because they're all cousins of each other, based on their sequence difference.
The most common form of transposon in humans is the Alu sequence. The Alu sequence is approximately 300 bases long and can be found between 300,000 and a million times in the human genome.
As a continuation of the previous project the multiple alignment of all the Alu sequences from GenBank is going on. We are also trying to obtain antibodies to the main Alubinding proteins to find out how many proteins could be bound to Alu sequence.
 See also: Sequence, Human, Gene, Genome, Origin
  
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