LINE-1 ORF1p does not determine substrate preference for human/orangutan SVA and gibbon LAVA
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Background: Non-autonomous VNTR (Variable Number of Tandem Repeats) composite retrotransposons - SVA (SINE-R-VNTR-Alu) and LAVA (L1-Alu-VNTR-Alu) - are specific to hominoid primates. SVA expanded in great apes, LAVA in gibbon. Bo... ...