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Nature 389, 120 (11 September 1997) | doi:10.1038/38110
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Functions for orphan genes
E. Richard Moxon & Christopher F. Higgins
From the paper by Blattner et al.5, the proportion of genes in Escherichia coli that are dedicated to known functions is estimated. Importantly, 30-40 per cent of genes have no known function, and are not obviously related to genes of known function.
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