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. 2006 Nov;174(3):1069-72.
doi: 10.1534/genetics.104.66886.

Cancer and the immortal strand hypothesis

John Cairns  1
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Cancer and the immortal strand hypothesis

John Cairns. Genetics. 2006 Nov.
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