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Stable and unstable genes: distribution among species and range of mutations.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Feb 1995
Frei J V
Abstract excerpt
An expansion of the 'stable' gene hypothesis proposed previously is the hypothesis that there is a range of genes, some proto-oncogenes and some not, varying from those with multiple copies in the genome, wide distribution among species, and limited mutability because of a specific protective stabilizing mechanism of such genes, to those that are in single copies in the genome, unprotected, unique to one species,...
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