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Transposon expression and repression in skeletal muscle

Matthew J Borok1, Louai Zaidan2, Frederic Relaix3,4,5,6

  • 1University Paris-Est Créteil, INSERM U955 IMRB, Créteil, 94010, France. matthew.borok@inserm.fr.

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Keywords:
Muscular dystrophySkeletal muscleTransposable elements

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