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Sequence-related human proteins cluster by degree of evolutionary conservation.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Nov 2004
Mrowka Ralf, Patzak Andreas, Herzel Hanspeter, Holste Dirk
Abstract excerpt
Gene duplication followed by adaptive evolution is thought to be a central mechanism for the emergence of novel genes. To illuminate the contribution of duplicated protein-coding sequences to the complexity of the human genome, we study the connectivity of pairwise sequence-related human proteins and construct a network (N) of linked protein sequences with shared similarities. We find that (i) the connectivity...
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