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Lavanya Rishishwar1, Lu Wang2, Evan A Clayton3

  • 1School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute, Cali, Colombia; Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Mobile Genetic Elements
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bioinformaticsdiseasegeneticsgenomicshealthhumannatural selectionpolymorphismstransposable elementstransposition

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