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Relic of ancient recombinations in gibbon ABO blood group genes deciphered through phylogenetic network analysis.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jun 2009
Kitano Takashi, Noda Reiko, Takenaka Osamu, Saitou Naruya
Abstract excerpt
The primate ABO blood group gene encodes a glycosyl transferase (either A or B type), and is known to have large coalescence times among the allelic lineages in human. We determined nucleotide sequences of ca. 2.2kb of this gene for 23 individuals of three gibbon species (agile gibbon, white-handed gibbon, and siamang), and observed a total of 24 haplotypes. We found relics of five ancient intragenic...
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