SILENCING. “As opposed to L1, most TEs appear to be silent—in other words, these elements do not produce a phenotypic effect, nor do they actively move around the genome. At least that has been the general scientific consensus.”
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/transposons-the-jumping-genes-518
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022