Barely Significant
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Persistent damaged bases in DNA allow mutagenic break repair in Escherichia coli.

PLoS Genet · 2017 · PMC5542668 · PMID 28727736

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not quite significantp = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
Depression of MBR by oxyR2 (59 ± 11%) was not quite significant at the 5% level ( p = 0.07, Student’s 2-tailed t -test) when tested in the wild-type strain.

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