Gene Conversions in the Siglec and CEA Immunoglobulin Gene Families of Primates

Siglecs and CEA are two families of cell surface proteins belonging to the immunoglobulin superfamily. They are thought to be involved in cell-cell interactions and have various other biological functions. We used the GENECONV program that applies statistical tests to detect gene conversion events i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zid, Mouldi
Other Authors: Drouin, Guy
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23625
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-6291