Gene conversion and duplication contribute to genetic variation in an outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Repeats are the most diverse and dynamic but also the least well-understood component of microbial genomes. For all we know, repeat-associated mutations such as duplications, deletions, inversions and gene conversion might be as common as point mutations, but because of short-read myopia and methodological bias, they have received much less attention. Long-read DNA sequencing opens the perspective of resolving...

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