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The Contribution of Alternative Transcription and Alternative Splicing to the Complexity of Mammalian Transcriptomes

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Zavolan, M., Schönbach, C. (2006). The Contribution of Alternative Transcription and Alternative Splicing to the Complexity of Mammalian Transcriptomes. In: Zhang, W., Shmulevich, I. (eds) Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26288-1_17

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