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The power-law distribution of gene family size is driven by the pseudogenisation rate's heterogeneity between gene families.

Gene - 15 May 2008

Hughes Timothy, Liberles David A

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Genome sequencing has shown that the number of homologous gene families of a given size declines rapidly with family size. A power-law has been shown to provide the best mathematical description of this relationship. However, it remains unclear what evolutionary forces drive this observation. We...

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PMID: 18378100
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.02.014

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