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Exploring the etiology of haploinsufficiency.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Feb 2002
Veitia Reiner A
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The focus of this essay is the phenomenon of haploinsufficiency (HI), a manifestation of genetic dominance that arises when only one allele of a normally diploid locus is present. Specifically, I examine the nature of HI for transcription factor genes. Although the concept of HI applies to many such genes, there is a potentially large variety of mechanisms that underlie it. Even when the phenomenon is linked in...
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