Role of duplicate genes in genetic robustness against null mutations

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6918, 2003, Pages 63-66

  Gu, Zhenglong ^a   Steinmetz, Lars M ^b   Gu, Xun ^c   Scharfe, Curt ^b   Davis, Ronald W ^b   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; METABOLISM; PROBABILITY;

DUPLICATE GENES;

GENES;

GENETIC STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; DUPLICATE GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; PROTEOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0347033256     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01198     Document Type: Article

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