ACCELERATED PUBLICATION Novel Family of Human Transposable Elements Formed Due to Fusion of the First Exon of Gene MAST2 with Retrotransposon SVA

Retroelements (REs) are genomic transposable elements that proliferate in the host DNA by using reverse transcription. This enzymatic activity that results in synthesis of a cDNA copy on a RE RNA template is a property of reverse transcriptase protein For retrotransposition Alu and SVA elements utilize L1-encoded reverse transcriptase ACCELERATED PUBLICATIO