Smoking gun for a rare mutation mechanism.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/d41586-018-00418-6 and PMC identifier PMC7526746.
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Abstract
In 1953, Watson and Crick proposed that rarely formed isomers of DNA bases cause spontaneous mutations to occur during the copying of DNA. Sixty-five years later, it looks as though they were right.