Transposable elements in cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer 17, 415 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrc.2017.35 Author: Kathleen H. Burns Transposable elements give rise to interspersed repeats, sequences that comprise most of our genomes. These mobile DNAs have been historically underappreciated — both because they have been presumed to be unimportant, and because their high copy number and variability pose unique technical challenges. Neither impediment
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