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The expansion of amino-acid repeats is not associated to adaptive evolution in mammalian genes

BACKGROUND: The expansion of amino acid repeats is determined by a high mutation rate and can be increased or limited by selection. It has been suggested that recent expansions could be associated with the potential of adaptation to new environments. In this work, we quantify the strength of this as...

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Autores principales: Cruz, Fernando, Roux, Julien, Robinson-Rechavi, Marc
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20021652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-619