We next employed the NCBI Human Genome Map Viewer [40] to investigate the potential role of gene density in the neighborhood of these three HERV insertions, since a highly significant inverse correlation between local gene density and HERV fixation rate has been demonstrated [37] .
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Human endogenous retrovirus K106 (HERV-K106) was infectious after the emergence of anatomically modern humans.
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