Mechanism for DNA transposons to generate introns on genomic scales

Jason T. Huff, Daniel Zilberman () and Scott W. Roy ()
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Jason T. Huff: University of California
Daniel Zilberman: University of California
Scott W. Roy: San Francisco State University

Nature, 2016, vol. 538, issue 7626, 533-536

Abstract: The observations that introns are acquired in bursts and that exons are often nucleosome-sized can be explained by the generation of introns from DNA transposons, which insert between nucleosomes.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nature20110

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