Mammalian Housekeeping Genes Evolve More Slowly than Tissue-Specific Genes
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Mammalian housekeeping genes evolve more slowly than tissue-specific genes.
Do housekeeping genes, which are turned on most of the time in almost every tissue, evolve more slowly than genes that are turned on only at specific developmental times or tissues? Recent large-scale gene expression studies enable us to have a better definition of housekeeping genes and to address the above question in detail. In this study, we examined 1581 human-mouse orthologous gene pairs ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1537-1719,0737-4038
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh010