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Dosage sensitivity shapes the evolution of copy-number varied regions.
PloS one - 10 Mar 2010
Schuster-Böckler Benjamin, Conrad Donald, Bateman Alex
Abstract excerpt
Dosage sensitivity is an important evolutionary force which impacts on gene dispensability and duplicability. The newly available data on human copy-number variation (CNV) allow an analysis of the most recent and ongoing evolution. Provided that heterozygous gene deletions and duplications actually change gene dosage, we expect to observe negative selection against CNVs encompassing dosage sensitive genes. In...
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