Allan Award Lecture: On Jumping Fields and “Jumping Genes”
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Jumping and Non-Jumping Genes
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Human Genetics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0002-9297
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.01.003