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Dominant negative factors in health and disease.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Aug 2009
Veitia Reiner A
Abstract excerpt
The idea of dominant mutations that interfere with the activity of a normal gene product has been known for more than 80 years-the famous Muller's antimorphs. However, only over half a century later, the mechanistic bases of dominant negative mutations (DNMs) were defined in a systematic way by Ira Herskowitz. Most analyses of DNMs consider only intralocus (interallelic) interactions. The typical textbook...
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