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The basic linker of macroH2A stabilizes DNA at the entry/exit site of the nucleosome

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QKI-Mediated Alternative Splicing of the Histone Variant MacroH2A1 Regulates Cancer Cell Proliferation

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The histone variant macroH2A1 marks repressed autosomal chromatin, but protects a subset of its target genes from silencing

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The histone variant macroH2A is an epigenetic regulator of key developmental genes

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