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The Genomic Load of Deleterious Mutations: Relevance to Death in Infancy and Childhood
The human diploid genome has approximately 40,000 functioning conserved genes distributed within 6 billion base pairs of DNA. Most individuals carry a few heterozygous deleterious mutations and this leads to an increased risk of recessive disease in the offspring of cousin unions. Rare recessive dis...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4360568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25852684 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2015.00105 |