The dominance of the population by a selected few: power-law behaviour applies to a wide variety of genomic properties

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Luscombe, Nicholas M ^a   Qian, Jiang ^a   Zhang, Zhaolei ^a   Johnson, Ted ^a   Gerstein, Mark ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Duplicative Process; Genomic Biology; Genomic Property; Interdomain Interaction

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DOMINANT GENE; DUPLICATE GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0242713700     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-8-research0040     Document Type: Article

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