Article
"Genome design" model: evidence from conserved intronic sequence in human-mouse comparison.
Genome research - 1 Mar 2006
Vinogradov Alexander E
Abstract excerpt
Introns are shorter in housekeeping genes than in tissue- or development-specific genes. Differing explanations have been offered for this phenomenon: selection for economy (in housekeeping genes), mutation bias or "genomic design." The large-scale implementation in this present paper of a rigorous local sequence alignment algorithm revealed an unprecedented fraction of evolutionarily conserved DNA in human-mouse...
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