Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:We speculate that CL may be the result of the NHEJ-dependent fusion of uncapped telomeres and subsequent chromosomal non-disjunction, while IHR may be the result of the recombinational repair of replication lesions (Meyer and Bailis, 2007), or exonucleolytically digested chromosome ends (Hackett et al.
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