Telomeric amplicons of SUL1 and Y' in yeast are generated by microhomology-mediated break induced replication occurring in cis
Bonita J. Brewer, Rebecca Martin, Elizabeth R. Ramage…·M. K. Raghuraman
The paper identifies a mechanism of gene amplification in yeast involving microhomology-mediated break-induced replication (mmBIR) at telomeres, leading to tandem duplication of chromosomal ends.