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Tissue Specificity of Hereditary Disorders Linked to Paralogous Genes, ESHG Talk Suggests

May 30, 2017
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Julia Karow

COPENHAGEN (GenomeWeb) – Genes that resulted from a duplication event and are similar in sequence – so-called paralogs – might explain in part why many hereditary diseases are confined to certain tissues, according to research presented at the European Society of Human Genetics annual meeting here this week.

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