'Jumping genes' find new homes in humans more often than previously thought

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

Transposons, or "jumping genes," make up roughly half of the human genome. Geneticists previously estimated that they replicate and insert themselves into new locations roughly one in every 20 live births.

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