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Divergent evolution of part of the involucrin gene in the hominoids: unique intragenic duplications in the gorilla and human.

The gene for involucrin, an epidermal protein, has been remodeled in the higher primates. Most of the coding region of the human gene consists of a modern segment of repeats derived from a 10-codon sequence present in the ancestral segment of the gene. The modern segment can be divided into early, m...

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Main Authors: Teumer, J, Green, H
Format: Article
Language:en
Published: 1989
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC286672/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2919176
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