Sentences with phrase «gene duplications occurred»

Recent breakthroughs in evolutionary genomics show that a burst of gene duplications occurred in the human lineage during its separation from non-human primates approximately 6 million years ago (Bailey et al., 2002; Fortna et al., 2004; Marques - Bonet et al., 2009).

Not exact matches

Gene moonlighting can occur merely through changes in expression, which may result from as little as a single mutation; it does not require the meandering process of random alteration and selection implied by the duplication and neofunctionalization model.

The upper panel shows the distance of read pairs; the insertion of the region probably occurred after the duplication of the gene into the subtelomeres, as all reads from the duplications are connected over the insertion.

Recently, we showed that duplication of a gene (TBK1) causes some cases of a form of glaucoma that occurs at low eye pressure.

Altogether, the data presented in this study reinforces the evolutionary importance of the two rounds of whole genome duplication that occurred in the vertebrate ancestor and sheds light on the differential behaviour of gene duplicates that arose in these events.