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Theoretical and practical advances in genome halving.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 1 Apr 2005
Yin Peng, Hartemink Alexander J
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MOTIVATION: Duplication of an organism's entire genome is a rare but spectacular event, enabling the rapid emergence of multiple new gene functions. Over time, the parallel linkage of duplicated genes across chromosomes may be disrupted by reciprocal translocations, while the intra-chromosomal order of genes may be shuffled by inversions and transpositions. Some duplicate genes may evolve unrecognizably or be...
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