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MER41 refers to a family of endogenous retroviruses belonging to the LTR retrotransposon class of transposable elements. Derived from gammaretroviruses, MER41 were endogenized into the primate germline approximately 45 to 60 mya. The human genome contains approximately 7,190 individual MER41 LTR copies distributed across six subfamilies: MER41A, MER41B, MER41C, MER41D, MER41E, and MER41G.