Pseudoalleles and Gene Complexes: The Search for the Elusive Link Between Genome Structure and Gene Function.

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After their discovery in the first decades of the 20th century, pseudo-alleles generated much interest among geneticists, because they apparently violated the conception of the genome as a collection of independent genes, a view elaborated by Thomas Morgan's group. This article focuses on two issues: the way the phenomenon of pseudoallelism suggests that the genome is more than a simple addition of independent...

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