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Simultaneous Mapping and Quantitation of Ribonucleotides in Human Mitochondrial DNA
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Simultaneous Mapping and Quantitation of Ribonucleotides in Human Mitochondrial DNA

Published on: November 14, 2017

The tRNA genes punctuate the reading of genetic information in human mitochondrial DNA

D Ojala, C Merkel, R Gelfand

    Cell
    |November 1, 1980
    PubMed

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