Long interspersed nucleotide elements

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Long interspersed nucleotide elements - a highly repetitive retrotransposon-like sequence that is 6000-8000 base pairs in length. It may contain an rna polymerase ii promoter domain, repetitive target sequences, and open reading frames encoding proteins with endonuclease and reverse transcriptase activity. See long interspersed element


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