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Expansion and divergence of the GH locus between spider monkey and chimpanzee.
Gene - 21 Jul 2004
Revol De Mendoza Agnès, Esquivel Escobedo Dolores, Martínez Dávila Irma, Saldaña Hugo
Abstract excerpt
Growth hormone (GH) has been previously described as showing distinct evolutionary stories between primates and other mammals. A burst of changes and successive amplification events took place in the primate lineage giving rise to a multigene family in the three Anthropoidea lineages. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to obtain the genes and the intergenic regions comprising the GH loci of the spider...
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