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Research Paper

Transposon clusters as substrates for aberrant splice-site activation

Maria Elena Vilar Alvareza School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8036-6816View further author information
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Martin Chiversa School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8581-2670View further author information
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Ivana Borovskab Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Bratislava, Slovak RepublicORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8090-387XView further author information
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Steven Mongerc Computational Genomics Laboratory, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4209-3092View further author information
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Eleni Giannoulatouc Computational Genomics Laboratory, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Australia;d St. Vincent’s Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7084-6736View further author information
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Jana Kralovicovaa School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;b Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Bratislava, Slovak RepublicORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4385-8923View further author information
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Igor Vorechovskya School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 354-367 | Received 11 May 2020, Accepted 01 Aug 2020, Published online: 23 Sep 2020

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