The APOLO long noncoding RNA directly modulates three-dimensional conformation of multiple distal loci across the Arabidopsis genome
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ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana
PROVIDER: GSE117486 | GEO | 2019/07/31
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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