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Profiling histone modification patterns in plants using genomic tiling microarrays

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Gendrel, AV., Lippman, Z., Martienssen, R. et al. Profiling histone modification patterns in plants using genomic tiling microarrays. Nat Methods 2, 213–218 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0305-213

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