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Impact of Foreign DNA Integration on Tumor Biology and on Evolution via Epigenetic Alterations

Walter DoerflerInstitute for Virology, Erlangen University, Erlangen, Germany Institute of Genetics University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany and Erlangen University Medical School, Schlossgarten 4, D-91054Erlangen, Germany. Tel.: +49 9131 852 [email protected]View further author information
Pages 41-49 | Published online: 14 Feb 2012

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