The power-law distribution of gene family size is driven by the pseudogenisation rate's heterogeneity between gene families

Gene

Volumn 414, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 85-94

  Hughes, Timothy ^a   Liberles, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Duplication; Family; Homology; Loss; Power law

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FAMILY SIZE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS; GENOME; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENIZATION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMULATION;

GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PSEUDOGENES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 41949093234     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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