Predicting the proportion of essential genes in mouse duplicates based on biased mouse knockout genes

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 705-709

  Su, Zhixi ^a   Gu, Xun ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Gene knockout; Genetic robustness; Proportion of essential genes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DUPLICATE GENE; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOUSE MUTANT;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 65349176464     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9170-9     Document Type: Article

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