DNA hypomethylation leads to elevated mutation rates.

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Published in Nature on September 03, 1998

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R Z Chen1, U Pettersson, C Beard, L Jackson-Grusby, R Jaenisch

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1: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.

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