Muons penetrate much further than X-rays, they do essentially zero damage, and they are provided for free by the cosmos.
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Edited by Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco, CA, and approved April 17, 2006 (received for review January 10, 2006)
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- Published in issue June 6, 2006.
- Published first May 26, 2006.
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- *Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia; and
- †Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
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Edited by Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco, CA, and approved April 17, 2006 (received for review January 10, 2006)
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- ‡To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: paul.kalitsis{at}mcri.edu.au or andy.choo{at}mcri.edu.au
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Author contributions: P.K. designed research; P.K. and B.G. performed research; P.K., B.G., and K.H.A.C. analyzed data; and P.K. and K.H.A.C. wrote the paper.
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Conflict of interest statement: No conflicts declared.
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This paper was submitted directly (Track II) to the PNAS office.
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Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession nos. DQ322707–DQ322722).
- Abbreviations:
- MEF,
- mouse embryonic fibroblast;
- PFGE,
- pulsed-field gel electrophoresis;
- tL1,
- truncated long interspersed nucleotide element 1;
- CENP,
- centromere protein;
- Rob,
- Robertsonian;
- p-tel,
- p-telomeric.
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