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Extensive, nonrandom diversity of excision footprints generated by Ds-like transposon Ascot-1 suggests new parallels with V(D)J recombination.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Jul 1998
Colot V, Haedens V, Rossignol J L
Abstract excerpt
Upon insertion, transposable elements can disrupt or alter gene function in various ways. Transposons moving through a cut-and-paste mechanism are in addition often mutagenic when excising because repair of the empty site seldom restores the original sequence. The characterization of numerous excision events in many eukaryotes indicates that transposon excision from a given site can generate a high degree of DNA...
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