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Hinf family: a novel repeated DNA family of the human genome

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The isolation of a mutant adenovirus carrying an insertion of cellular DNA has led to the identification of a new family of human repetitive sequences, which are found tandemly arranged in the genome. The sequence of the viral insert resembles that of eukaryotic transposable elements.

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Shimizu, Y., Yoshida, K., Ren, CS. et al. Hinf family: a novel repeated DNA family of the human genome. Nature 302, 587–590 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/302587a0

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