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Are there rearrangement hot spots in the human genome?

The debate over the validity of genomic rearrangement 'hot spots' has its most recent addition in a new theory put forth by researchers at the UC-San Diego. The study, published on Nov. 9 in PLoS Computational Biology, holds that there are indeed rearrangement hot spots in the human genome. This study represents a major advance in the debate.

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