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Hox11 paralogous genes are essential for metanephric kidney induction.
Genes & development - 1 Jun 2002
Wellik Deneen M, Hawkes Patrick J, Capecchi Mario R
Abstract excerpt
The mammalian Hox complex is divided into four linkage groups containing 13 sets of paralogous genes. These paralogous genes have retained functional redundancy during evolution. For this reason, loss of only one or two Hox genes within a paralogous group often results in incompletely penetrant phenotypes which are difficult to interpret by molecular analysis. For example, mice individually mutant for Hoxa11 or...
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