Paul A. Witherspoon (1919-2012)
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Roy John Britten (1919-2012)
Roy John Britten studied DNA sequences in the US in the second half of the twentieth century, and he helped discover repetitive elements in DNA sequences. Additionally, Britten helped propose models and concepts of gene regulatory networks [5]. Britten studied the organization [6] of repetitive elements and, analyzing data from the Human Genome Project, he found that the repetitive elements in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0096-3941
DOI: 10.1029/2012eo310007