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Landscape of somatic retrotransposition in human cancers.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 24 Aug 2012
Lee Eunjung, Iskow Rebecca, Yang Lixing, Gokcumen Omer, Haseley Psalm, Luquette Lovelace J, Lohr Jens G, Harris Christopher C, Ding Li, Wilson Richard K, Wheeler David A, Gibbs Richard A, Kucherlapati Raju, Lee Charles, Kharchenko Peter V, Park Peter J
Abstract excerpt
Transposable elements (TEs) are abundant in the human genome, and some are capable of generating new insertions through RNA intermediates. In cancer, the disruption of cellular mechanisms that normally suppress TE activity may facilitate mutagenic retrotranspositions. We performed single-nucleoti...
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