Ancestral reconstruction of segmental duplications reveals punctuated cores of human genome evolution

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BiologyGene duplicationSegmental duplicationNon-allelic homologous recombinationGenomeGeneticsGeneEvolutionary biologyGenome evolutionComparative genomic hybridizationHuman genomeCopy-number variationmyrConcerted evolutionENCODEGene familyRecombinationGenetic recombination

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Year: 2007
Type: article
Volume: 39
Issue: 11
Pages: 1361-1368
Citations: 222
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                                    Zhaoshi Jiang, 
                                
                                    Haixu Tang, 
                                
                                    Mario Ventura
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2007). 
                            Ancestral reconstruction of segmental duplications reveals punctuated cores of human genome evolution. 
                            Nature Genetics
                            , 39
                            (11)
                            , 1361-1368.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2007.9
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/ng.2007.9