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We thank Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California at Berkeley, Tom Slezak of the Joint Genome Institute/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Richard Cotton, Mutation Research Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, for suggestions and support.
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Maurer, S., Firestone, R. & Scriver, C. Science's neglected legacy. Nature 405, 117–120 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35012169
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