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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: Front Biosci (Landmark Ed). 2012 Jan 1;17:1345–1361. doi: 10.2741/3991

Table 1.

Alu subfamilies genomic distribution, activity and relative expression

Alu subfamily % total genomic
Alu
# diseases caused by de novo insertion
(%) (107)
% Alu transcripts
(61)$
S + J 82 0 (0%) 66
Y 17 11 (27%) 33
Ya5* 0.3 18 (44%) 0.8
Yb8* 0.2 12 (29%) 0.5
Total 100 41 (100%) 100
*

Includes all subfamily variants,

$

Only includes data from validated bona fide RNA pol III transcribed Alu elements