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Different evolutionary patterns between young duplicate genes in the human genome.
Genome biology - 1 Jan 2003
Zhang Peng, Gu Zhenglong, Li Wen-Hsiung
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Following gene duplication, two duplicate genes may experience relaxed functional constraints or acquire different mutations, and may also diverge in function. Whether the two copies will evolve in different patterns remains unclear, however, because previous studies have reached conflicting conclusions. In order to resolve this issue, by providing a general picture, we studied 250 independent pairs...
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