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Duplication, duplication

Nature volume 421, pages 31–32 (2003)Cite this article

Duplicated genes are common in genomes, perhaps because they provide redundancy: if one copy is inactivated, the other can still work. A new study quantifies the effects of deleting 'singletons' and duplicated genes in yeast.

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