 Multigene Family
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A set of genes descended by duplication and variation from some ancestral gene. Such genes may be clustered together on the same chromosome or dispersed on different chromosomes. Examples of multigene families include those that encode the hemoglobins, immunoglobulins, histocompatibility antigens, actins, tubulins, keratins, collagens, heat shock proteins, salivary glue proteins, chorion proteins, cuticle proteins, yolk proteins, and phaseolins, as well as histones, ribosomal RNA, and transfer RNA genes. The latter three are examples of reiterated genes, where hundreds of identical genes are present in a tandem array. (King & Stanfield, A Dictionary of Genetics, 4th ed)
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D005810
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.360.340.024.340.645
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| Concept/Terms |
Multigene Family- Multigene Family
- Families, Multigene
- Family, Multigene
- Multigene Families
Gene Clusters- Gene Clusters
- Cluster, Gene
- Clusters, Gene
- Gene Cluster
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| 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Multigene Family" by people in Profiles.
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Hamilton MP, Rajapakshe K, Hartig SM, Reva B, McLellan MD, Kandoth C, Ding L, Zack TI, Gunaratne PH, Wheeler DA, Coarfa C, McGuire SE. Identification of a pan-cancer oncogenic microRNA superfamily anchored by a central core seed motif. Nat Commun. 2013; 4:2730.
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Skretas G, Makino T, Varadarajan N, Pogson M, Georgiou G. Multi-copy genes that enhance the yield of mammalian G protein-coupled receptors in Escherichia coli. Metab Eng. 2012 Sep; 14(5):591-602.
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Warren WC, Clayton DF, Ellegren H, Arnold AP, Hillier LW, Künstner A, Searle S, White S, Vilella AJ, Fairley S, Heger A, Kong L, Ponting CP, Jarvis ED, Mello CV, Minx P, Lovell P, Velho TA, Ferris M, Balakrishnan CN, Sinha S, Blatti C, London SE, Li Y, Lin YC, George J, Sweedler J, Southey B, Gunaratne P, Watson M, Nam K, Backström N, Smeds L, Nabholz B, Itoh Y, Whitney O, Pfenning AR, Howard J, Völker M, Skinner BM, Griffin DK, Ye L, McLaren WM, Flicek P, Quesada V, Velasco G, Lopez-Otin C, Puente XS, Olender T, Lancet D, Smit AF, Hubley R, Konkel MK, Walker JA, Batzer MA, Gu W, Pollock DD, Chen L, Cheng Z, Eichler EE, Stapley J, Slate J, Ekblom R, Birkhead T, Burke T, Burt D, Scharff C, Adam I, Richard H, Sultan M, Soldatov A, Lehrach H, Edwards SV, Yang SP, Li X, Graves T, Fulton L, Nelson J, Chinwalla A, Hou S, Mardis ER, Wilson RK. The genome of a songbird. Nature. 2010 Apr 01; 464(7289):757-62.
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Watrous J, Burns K, Liu WT, Patel A, Hook V, Bafna V, Barry CE, Bark S, Dorrestein PC. Expansion of the mycobacterial "PUPylome". Mol Biosyst. 2010 Feb; 6(2):376-85.
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Gunaratne PH. Embryonic stem cell microRNAs: defining factors in induced pluripotent (iPS) and cancer (CSC) stem cells? Curr Stem Cell Res Ther. 2009 Sep; 4(3):168-77.
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Carson J, Ju T, Bello M, Thaller C, Warren J, Kakadiaris IA, Chiu W, Eichele G. Automated pipeline for atlas-based annotation of gene expression patterns: application to postnatal day 7 mouse brain. Methods. 2010 Feb; 50(2):85-95.
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Wang J, Dasgupta I, Fox GE. Many nonuniversal archaeal ribosomal proteins are found in conserved gene clusters. Archaea. 2009 Apr 28; 2(4):241-51.
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Benabentos R, Hirose S, Sucgang R, Curk T, Katoh M, Ostrowski EA, Strassmann JE, Queller DC, Zupan B, Shaulsky G, Kuspa A. Polymorphic members of the lag gene family mediate kin discrimination in Dictyostelium. Curr Biol. 2009 Apr 14; 19(7):567-72.
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Karpathy SE, Qin X, Gioia J, Jiang H, Liu Y, Petrosino JF, Yerrapragada S, Fox GE, Haake SK, Weinstock GM, Highlander SK. Genome sequence of Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies polymorphum - a genetically tractable fusobacterium. PLoS One. 2007 Aug 01; 2(7):e659.
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Davies KJ, Ermak G, Rothermel BA, Pritchard M, Heitman J, Ahnn J, Henrique-Silva F, Crawford D, Canaider S, Strippoli P, Carinci P, Min KT, Fox DS, Cunningham KW, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN, Zhang Z, Williams RS, Gerber HP, Pérez-Riba M, Seo H, Cao X, Klee CB, Redondo JM, Maltais LJ, Bruford EA, Povey S, Molkentin JD, McKeon FD, Duh EJ, Crabtree GR, Cyert MS, de la Luna S, Estivill X. Renaming the DSCR1/Adapt78 gene family as RCAN: regulators of calcineurin. FASEB J. 2007 Oct; 21(12):3023-8.
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