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Estimates suggest that human specific L1 mobilization alone is responsible for increasing the size of the human genome by roughly 1.4 million bases, and that over 70 human specific L1 elements may still possess the ability to retrotranspose within human cells. Interestingly, over 35 L1 insertions were found adjacent to exons, though the majority of insertions showed general preference for gene poor regions of the genomes with low GC content. Analysis of over 500 L1 insertions by PCR on a diverse panel of humans representing geographically distinct human populations revealed that 115 (45%) of the Ta and 33 (14%) of the preTa human specific L1 insertions were variable in the human population with respect to insertion presence or absence. Sequence analysis of L1Hs Ta and preTa subfamily members yielded estimated average ages of 1.99 and 2.34 million years respectively. 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