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ArticleMobile DNA2018

The case for not masking away repetitive DNA.

R Keith Slotkin

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Article in Mobile DNA, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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What it found

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Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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R Keith SlotkinDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Center for Applied Plant Sciences, The Ohio State University, 500 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9582-3533

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the course of analyzing whole-genome data, it is common practice to mask or filter out repetitive regions of a genome, such as transposable elements and endogenous retroviruses, in order to focus only on genes and thus simplify the results. This

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FilterGenomicsRepeat maskRepetitive DNATransposable elementTransposon

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PMID29743957
PMCPMC5930866

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