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Go retro and get a GRIP

Kim Wong, David J Adams* and Thomas M Keane

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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK

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Genome Biology 2013, 14:108 doi:10.1186/gb-2013-14-3-108

Published: 19 March 2013

Abstract

Gene retrocopy insertions are a source of new genes and new gene functions, and can now be identified using paired-end whole genome sequencing data.

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