DNA Dynamics Is Likely to Be a Factor in the Genomic Nucleotide Repeats Expansions Related to Diseases

• Boian S. Alexandrov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Boian S. Alexandrov, Vlad I. Valtchinov

  Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Vlad I. Valtchinov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Boian S. Alexandrov, Vlad I. Valtchinov

  Affiliation National Center for Biomedical Computing, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ludmil B. Alexandrov,

  Current address: Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Vladimir Gelev,

  Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Yossi Dagon,

  Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jonathan Bock,

  Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Isaac S. Kohane,

  Affiliation National Center for Biomedical Computing, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Kim Ø. Rasmussen,

  Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Alan R. Bishop,

  Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Anny Usheva

  * E-mail: ausheva@bidmc.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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