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Replication fork dynamics and dynamic mutations: the fork-shift model of repeat instability.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 May 2005
Cleary John D, Pearson Christopher E
Abstract excerpt
Gene-specific repeat instability is responsible for >36 human diseases. Active instability varies in a tissue-, developmental stage- and locus-specific manner and occurs in both proliferative and non-proliferative cells. In proliferative cells, DNA replication can contribute to repeat instability either by switching the direction of replication, which changes the repeat sequence that serves as the lagging-strand...
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