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Ribonucleotides in DNA: hidden in plain sight

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Mapping of ribonucleotides to single-nucleotide resolution in yeast genomes provides new insight into the enzymology of DNA replication.

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Figure 1: Division of labor at the replication fork.
Figure 2: Summary of rNMP-mapping methods.
Figure 3: Schematic of key results from genome-wide rNMP mapping.

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  2. Hannah L. Klein is at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.,

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