Chromatin organization in sperm may be the major functional consequence of base composition variation in the human genome.

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Published in PLoS Genet on April 07, 2011

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Tanya Vavouri1, Ben Lehner

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1: EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

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