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Transcriptional compensation for gene loss plays a minor role in maintaining genetic robustness in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Genetics - 1 Oct 2005
Wong Sharyl L, Roth Frederick P
Abstract excerpt
If a gene is mutated and its function lost, are compensatory genes upregulated? We investigated whether genes are transcriptionally upregulated when their synthetic sick or lethal (SSL) partners are lost. We identified several new examples; however, remarkably few SSL pairs exhibited this phenomenon, suggesting that transcriptional compensation by SSL partners is a rare mechanism for maintaining genetic robustness.
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