"Alu Elements" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The Alu sequence family (named for the restriction endonuclease cleavage enzyme Alu I) is the most highly repeated interspersed repeat element in humans (over a million copies). It is derived from the 7SL RNA component of the SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE and contains an RNA polymerase III promoter. Transposition of this element into coding and regulatory regions of genes is responsible for many heritable diseases.
| Descriptor ID |
D020087
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.570.080.708.330.800.800.050 G05.360.080.708.330.800.800.050 G05.360.340.024.425.800.800.050
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| Concept/Terms |
Alu Elements- Alu Elements
- Alu Element
- Element, Alu
- Elements, Alu
- Alu Family
- Alu Families
- Families, Alu
- Family, Alu
- Alu Repetitive Sequences
- Alu Repetitive Sequence
- Repetitive Sequence, Alu
- Repetitive Sequences, Alu
- Sequence, Alu Repetitive
- Sequences, Alu Repetitive
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Alu Elements" by people in Profiles.
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RNA editing underlies genetic risk of common inflammatory diseases. Nature. 2022 08; 608(7923):569-577.
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Insertion of an Alu Element in Thyroglobulin Gene as a Novel Cause of Congenital Hypothyroidism. Thyroid. 2020 05; 30(5):780-782.
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Alu-mediated deletion of PIGL in a Patient with CHIME syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2017 May; 173(5):1378-1382.
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Alu repeats as transcriptional regulatory platforms in macrophage responses to M. tuberculosis infection. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 12 15; 44(22):10571-10587.
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DNA methylation in repetitive elements and post-traumatic stress disorder: a case-control study of US military service members. Epigenomics. 2012 Feb; 4(1):29-40.
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tRNA: Vast reservoir of RNA molecules with unexpected regulatory function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 04; 108(40):16489-90.
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LCR-initiated rearrangements at the IDS locus, completed with Alu-mediated recombination or non-homologous end joining. J Hum Genet. 2011 Jul; 56(7):516-23.
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Inversing the natural hydrogen bonding rule to selectively amplify GC-rich ADAR-edited RNAs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jul; 36(12):e72.
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An Alu-mediated rearrangement causing a 3.2kb deletion and a novel two base pair deletion in AAAS gene as the cause of triple A syndrome. Mol Genet Metab. 2007 Dec; 92(4):359-63.
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The signal recognition particle. Annu Rev Biochem. 2001; 70:755-75.