Birth and death of gene overlaps in vertebrates

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Between five and fourteen per cent of genes in the vertebrate genomes do overlap sharing some intronic and/or exonic sequence. It was observed that majority of these overlaps are not conserved among vertebrate lineages. Although seve...

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Main Authors: Makałowska Izabela, Lin Chiao-Feng, Hernandez Krisitina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-10-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/193

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