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Identification of Sleeping Beauty Transposon Insertions in Solid Tumors using Linker-mediated PCR
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Correction: Genomic Analysis of Sleeping Beauty Transposon Integration in Human Somatic Cells
Plos One
|January 31, 2020
Abstract:
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112712.].
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