Genomic Fault Zones Come and Go (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Genomic Fault Zones Come and Go (1 of 2)

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According to research performed at UC San Diego, the fragile regions in mammalian genomes that are thought to play a key role in evolution go through a "birth and death" process. The graphic above is from the new Genome Biology paper in which the findings are outlined.

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Credit: Pavel Pevzner / Max Alekseyev

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Credit: Pavel Pevzner / Max Alekseyev

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