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Research Paper

Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs) show tissue-specific, mosaic genome and methylation-unrestricted, widespread expression of noncoding RNAs in somatic tissues of the rat

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Pages 1380-1396 | Published online: 12 Oct 2012

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