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Assessing the influence of adjacent gene orientation on the evolution of gene upstream regions in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Genetics - 1 Jun 2010
He Fei, Chen Wei-Hua, Collins Sinéad, Acquisti Claudia, Goebel Ulrike, Ramos-Onsins Sebastian, Lercher Martin J, de Meaux Juliette
Abstract excerpt
The orientation of flanking genes may influence the evolution of intergenic regions in which cis-regulatory elements are likely to be located: divergently transcribed genes share their 5' regions, resulting either in smaller "private" spaces or in overlapping regulatory elements. Thus, upstream sequences of divergently transcribed genes (bi-directional upstream regions, or URs) may be more constrained than those...
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