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. 2018 Jul 19;25(5):521–533. doi: 10.1093/dnares/dsy022

Table 2.

Impact of human-specific mobile elements (HS-MEs) on genome size (kb)

ME type HS-MEs TSDs Trans# RIMD* Net size Increase ratio
Transd#
/1K ME /Mbp ME /1K ME
L1 8,422.3 38.5 380.7 −521.5 8,320.0 14.7 15.9 0.7
Alu 2,567.5 111.4 187.9 −265.7 2,601.0 2.3 8.4 0.2
SVA 2,417.9 20.2 194.5 −75.0 2,557.5 518.5 604.8 39.4
LTR 834.3 2.0 33.4 −117.5 752.2 1.5 2.8 0.1
Total 14,242.0 172.0 796.5 979.7 14,230.8 6.5 12.9 0.4

Transd#, transduction; RIMD*, retrotransposition insertion-mediated deletion.