Part of a family of short, interspersed repeats, these are the most abundant sequence repeats in the human genome (making up 5%.10% of the total). Alu sequences can be propagated by ...

The ACE gene, which has been mapped to human chromosome 17q23, has insertion/ deletion polymorphism in intron 16 consisting of a 287-base pair Alu repeat sequence with three genotypes: insertion ...