Small RNAs as guardians of the genome.

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Published in Cell on February 20, 2009

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Colin D Malone1, Gregory J Hannon

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1: Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.

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