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RNA can conceivably alter human DNA? How, you might ask, given that human cells don’t use reverse transcriptase? Because due to ancient viral infections there’s a LINE-1[1] gene that codes for it. So it can’t be ruled out that RNA ends up encoded as DNA.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25478632/







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