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A murine specific expansion of the Rhox cluster involved in embryonic stem cell biology is under natural selection

BACKGROUND: The rodent specific reproductive homeobox (Rhox) gene cluster on the X chromosome has been reported to contain twelve homeobox-containing genes, Rhox1-12. RESULTS: We have identified a 40 kb genomic region within the Rhox cluster that is duplicated eight times in tandem resulting in the...

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Autores principales: Jackson, Melany, Watt, Alistair J, Gautier, Philippe, Gilchrist, Derek, Driehaus, Johanna, Graham, Gerard J, Keebler, Jon, Prugnolle, Franck, Awadalla, Philip, Forrester, Lesley M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1562416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16916441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-7-212