Two RNAs or DNAs May Artificially Fuse Together at a Short Homologous Sequence (SHS) during Reverse Transcription or Polymerase Chain Reactions, and Thus Reporting an SHS-Containing Chimeric RNA Requires Extra Caution

• Bingkun Xie ,

  * E-mail: bkxie@163.com (BKX); h_sjiang@126.com (HSJ); djliao@gmc.edu.cn (DJL)

  Affiliation Guangxi Institute of Animal Sciences, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Livestock Genetic Improvement, Nanning, Guangxi, 530001, P.R. China

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• Wei Yang,

  Affiliation Guangxi Veterinary Research Institute, Nanning, Guangxi, P.R. China

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• Yongchang Ouyang,

  Affiliation Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, Minnesota, 55912, United States of America

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• Lichan Chen,

  Affiliation Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, Minnesota, 55912, United States of America

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• Hesheng Jiang ,

  * E-mail: bkxie@163.com (BKX); h_sjiang@126.com (HSJ); djliao@gmc.edu.cn (DJL)

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, P.R. China

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• Yuying Liao,

  Affiliation Guangxi Institute of Animal Sciences, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Livestock Genetic Improvement, Nanning, Guangxi, 530001, P.R. China

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• D. Joshua Liao

  * E-mail: bkxie@163.com (BKX); h_sjiang@126.com (HSJ); djliao@gmc.edu.cn (DJL)

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Guizhou Medical University Hospital, Guizhou, Guiyang, 550004, P.R. China

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