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Recent duplication, domain accretion and the dynamic mutation of the human genome.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Nov 2001
Eichler E E
Abstract excerpt
An estimated 5% of the human genome consists of interspersed duplications that have arisen over the past 35 million years of evolution. Two categories of such recently duplicated segments can be distinguished: segmental duplications between nonhomologous chromosomes (transchromosomal duplications) and duplications mainly restricted to a particular chromosome (chromosome-specific duplications). Many of these...
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