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Concerted copy number variation balances ribosomal DNA dosage in human and mouse genomes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Feb 2015
Gibbons John G, Branco Alan T, Godinho Susana A, Yu Shoukai, Lemos Bernardo
Abstract excerpt
Tandemly repeated ribosomal DNA (rDNA) arrays are among the most evolutionary dynamic loci of eukaryotic genomes. The loci code for essential cellular components, yet exhibit extensive copy number (CN) variation within and between species. CN might be partly determined by the requirement of dosage balance between the 5S and 45S rDNA arrays. The arrays are nonhomologous, physically unlinked in mammals, and encode...
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