Developmental BiologyNature GeneticsPeer-reviewed
Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposongenerates viral-like particles causingdevelopmental limb phenotypes
Juliane Glaser, Giulia Cova, Beatrix Fauler…·Stefan Mundlos
The paper shows that activation of an LTR retrotransposon in the embryo leads to viral-like particle production, causing limb malformations through apoptotic cell death.
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