Mechanisms underlying telomere repeat turnover, revealed by hypervariable variant repeat distribution patterns in the human Xp/Yp telomere.

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Published in EMBO J on November 01, 1995

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D M Baird1, A J Jeffreys, N J Royle

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1: Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, UK.

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