Invasion and maintenance of a gene duplication.

doi:10.1073/pnas.91.8.2950

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Invasion and maintenance of a gene duplication.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Apr 1994

Clark A G

Abstract excerpt

The ubiquity of multigene families is evidence for the frequent occurrence of gene duplication, but the origin of multigene families from a single gene remains a little-studied aspect of genome evolution. Although it is clear that a duplication can arise and become fixed in a population purely by...

Topics

Diploidy
Models, Theoretical
Multigene Family
Mutation
Polymorphism, Genetic
Stochastic Processes

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