Title |
Subfunctionalization reduces the fitness cost of gene duplication in humans by buffering dosage imbalances
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, December 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-12-604 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Ariel Fernández, Yun-Huei Tzeng, Sze-Bi Hsu |
Abstract |
Driven essentially by random genetic drift, subfunctionalization has been identified as a possible non-adaptive mechanism for the retention of duplicate genes in small-population species, where widespread deleterious mutations are likely to cause complementary loss of subfunctions across gene copies. Through subfunctionalization, duplicates become indispensable to maintain the functional requirements of the ancestral locus. Yet, gene duplication produces a dosage imbalance in the encoded proteins and thus, as investigated in this paper, subfunctionalization must be subject to the selective forces arising from the fitness bottleneck introduced by the duplication event. |
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