Gene insertion, the incorporation of exogenous genetic material into a genome, can occur naturally or can be artificially induced. In nature, mobile elements called insertion sequences exist. They encode only the information necessary for their...

Genetic Insertion is the addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs into a genetic sequence. This can often happen in microsatellite regions due to the DNA polymerase slipping. On a chromosome level, an insertion refers to the insertion of a larger...