Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements (SINEs)
Short
Interspersed Nucleotide Element (SINE)
repeats are several hundred basepairs in length and
distributed throughout the genome, including within the
introns between the exons within protein-coding
gene regions. In humans, the Alu repeat family
consists of 200~300bp elements repeated several 100,000s
of times, and constitute 11% of the genome.