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Environmental change drives accelerated adaptation through stimulated copy number variation.
PLoS biology - 1 Jun 2017
Hull Ryan M, Cruz Cristina, Jack Carmen V, Houseley Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
Copy number variation (CNV) is rife in eukaryotic genomes and has been implicated in many human disorders, particularly cancer, in which CNV promotes both tumorigenesis and chemotherapy resistance. CNVs are considered random mutations but often arise through replication defects; transcription can interfere with replication fork progression and stability, leading to increased mutation rates at highly transcribed...
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