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Microsatellite mutation rates are equivalent in normal and telomerase-immortalized human fibroblasts

C N Roques1, J C Boyer, R A Farber

  • 1Department of Pathology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.

Cancer Research
|December 4, 2001
PubMed

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