The extent and nature of sequence variation in segmental duplications, which is widespread in the human genome, is poorly understood. A new study provides valuable insights into this issue.
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Gut, I., Lathrop, G. Duplicating SNPs. Nat Genet 36, 789–790 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0804-789
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