The Alu family developed through successive waves of fixation closely connected with primate lineage history

SummaryA new method of analyzing phylogenetic relations among members of the sequence family is presented and applied to human Alu sequences upon which work has been published. This method, based upon a correspondence analysis, works with large samples and yields easily interpretable graphical representations. Results obtained argue in favor of a new evolutionary scheme for Alu sequences, implying successives waves of amplification/fixation closely connected to primate lineage history.

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