Elsevier Transposable Elements in Health and Disease: Volume 116 (Advances in Genetics, Volume 116)

Transposable Elements in Health and Disease, Volume 116 in the Advances in Genetics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting comprehensive chapters on a variety of timely topics. Specific chapters examine Transposable Elements in Human Cancer: Regulation, Activation, and Genomic Consequences, Retrotransposons as both “architects” and “saboteurs” in the nervous system, Shaping Mammalian Genomes: The Regulation and Co-option of Transposable Elements, Transposable element analysis in -omics data, and Transposable elements in Aging: from biomarkers to effectors. Together, these contributions provide valuable insights into the mechanisms and impacts of transposable element activity, advancing our understanding of their broad significance in genetics, development, health, and disease. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Genetics series Covers current perspectives on the regulation, activity, and functional consequences of transposable elements across biological systems Includes methodological insights for analyzing transposable elements in large-scale genomic and –omics datasets Highlights the roles of transposable elements in genome evolution, aging, and disease, offering timely and integrative reviews