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Caption: The researchers, including UC San Diego’s Pavel Pevzner, tracked down the ancestral origin of more than two thirds of the long DNA duplications in the human genome known as “segmental duplications” and published their results in Nature Genetics. This colorful image (figure 2 in the paper) illustrates the process of ancestral-state determination for one 750-kb duplication block on human chromosome 2p11. In this example, 15 of 16 ancestral loci were accurately predicted by the computational method.
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