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The transmission of genetic material is fundamental toall living organisms. It has been recognized since thework of McClintock and Muller in the 1930s that a broken eukaryotic chromosome end is unstable and can leadto genomic rearrangements. This work defined naturalends, or telomeres, as special structures that provide stability to chromosome ends (McClintock 1938; Muller1938)...
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