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Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements

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Definition: Highly repeated sequences, 100-300 bases long, which contain RNA polymerase III promoters. The primate Alu (ALU ELEMENTS) and the rodent B1 SINEs are derived from 7SL RNA, the RNA component of the signal recognition particle. Most other SINEs are derived from tRNAs including the MIRs (mammalian-wide interspersed repeats).     
Examples Alu Elements 		Other names Short Interspersed DNA Sequence Elements; SINEs
 
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core-sine  0   *Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1999 Mar 16;96(6):2869-74

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