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Least gene-rich chromosomes Chr. 13 5 genes/Mb, Chr.
Signature in the Cell: self-contradiction and repetition - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Or it may simply not be selected against as efficiently as the more deleterious DNA insertions into the central, gene-rich regions of the chromosome, Arkhipova says. raven
Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water again ... - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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And Schafer warns of new social divisions: in addition to haves and have-nots, we will have the gene-rich and the gene-poor.
BRAVE NEW MONKEY 2008
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On the wilder fringes of the genetic engineering community, there are true believers prattling of the gene-rich and the gene-poor - Huxley's alphas and epsilons - and busily engaging in schemes for genetic enhancement and - to go one better than Brave New World - for immortality.
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Minimal-intron enriched chromosomes tend to be gene-rich, have higher GC content, replicate earlier and have more open chromatin structure.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jiang Zhu et al. 2010
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Gilbert N, Boyle S, Fiegler H, Woodfine K, Carter NP, et al. (2004) Chromatin architecture of the human genome: gene-rich domains are enriched in open chromatin fibers.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jiang Zhu et al. 2010
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Our single-celled ancestors who lived more than 1.5 billion years ago were already impressively gene-rich and sophisticated, as per last week's blog.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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DNA transposons and derivatives are broadly distributed and primarily associated with gene-rich regions.
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This suggests that CNV regions have been hot-spots of large scale variation for a prolonged period of time, as it has also been shown that gene-rich CNV regions correspond well with regions of segmental duplications
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Benjamin Schuster-B�ckler et al. 2010
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Chromosomes snake in and out of the two compartments repeatedly as their DNA alternates between active, gene-rich and inactive, gene-poor stretches.
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