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Landscape and variation of novel retroduplications in 26 human populations.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Jun 2017
Zhang Yan, Li Shantao, Abyzov Alexej, Gerstein Mark B
Abstract excerpt
Retroduplications come from reverse transcription of mRNAs and their insertion back into the genome. Here, we performed comprehensive discovery and analysis of retroduplications in a large cohort of 2,535 individuals from 26 human populations, as part of 1000 Genomes Phase 3. We developed an integrated approach to discover novel retroduplications combining high-coverage exome and low-coverage whole-genome...
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