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Sequence diversification and exon inactivation in the glycophorin A gene family from chimpanzee to human.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Oct 1995
Huang C H, Xie S S, Socha W, Blumenfeld O O
Abstract excerpt
In humans, the allelic diversity of MNSs glycophorins (GP) occurs mainly through the recombinational modulation of silent exons (pseudoexons) in duplicated genes. To address the origin of such a mechanism, structures of GPA, GPB, and GPE were determined in chimpanzee, the only higher primate known to have achieved a three-gene framework as in humans. Pairwise comparison of the chimpanzee and human genes revealed...
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