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Secondary integratiotes also showed enrichment for Hi-C contacts with their donor loci within approximately 50 kb after accounting for genomic distance, consistent with a contribution of local three-dimensional chromatin organization to target selection. An extended chromosome 2 donor cluster further illustrated how donor distribution, chromatin state, domain organization, and local three-dimensional connectivity can coincide with highly asymmetric integration patterns and regions of pronounced integration depletion. Together, these findings indicate that secondary SB transposition is not entirely random and is shaped by the combined effects of genomic distance and local genomic context. 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