How New Genes Are Born

Overview

Journal Elife

Specialty Biology

Date 2020 Feb 20

PMID 32072921

Citations 15

Authors

Urminder Singh

Eve Syrkin Wurtele

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Abstract

Analysis of yeast, fly and human genomes suggests that sequence divergence is not the main source of orphan genes.

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