Duplication and retention biases of essential and non-essential genes revealed by systematic knockdown analyses.

When a duplicate gene has no apparent loss-of-function phenotype, it is commonly considered that the phenotype has been masked as a result of functional redundancy with the remaining paralog. This is supported by indirect evidence showing that multi-copy genes show loss-of-function phenotypes less o...

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Main Authors: Shane Woods, Avril Coghlan, David Rivers, Tobias Warnecke, Sean J Jeffries, Taejoon Kwon, Anthony Rogers, Laurence D Hurst, Julie Ahringer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3649981?pdf=render