Mechanisms and impact of alternative transposition-induced segmental duplications
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....................................................................................................... 89 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 90 Results ........................................................................................................ 92 Discussion ........................................................................................................ 98 Methods ......................................................................................................... 102 References ..................................................................................................... 103
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