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Pause-melting misalignment: a novel model for the birth and motif indel of tandem repeats in the mitochondrial genome.
BMC genomics - 15 Feb 2013
Shi Wei, Kong Xiao-Yu, Wang Zhong-Ming, Yu Shan-Shan, Chen Hai-Xia, De Stasio Elizabeth A
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BACKGROUND: Tandem repeats (TRs) in the mitochondrial (mt) genome control region have been documented in a wide variety of vertebrate species. The mechanism by which repeated tracts originate and undergo duplication and deletion, however, remains unclear. RESULTS: We analyzed DNA sequences of mt...
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