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Gene duplication and alternative splicing are distinct evolutionary mechanisms that provide the raw material for new biological functions. We explored their relationships in human and mouse and found an inverse correlation between the size of a gene's family and its use of alternatively spliced isoforms. A cross-organism analysis suggests that selection for genome-wide genic proliferation might be interchangeably met by either evolutionary mechanism.
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We thank A. Derti for a critical reading of the manuscript and Y. Groner, E. Domany, M.J. Lercher, A. Bar-Even and S.J. Fleishman for discussions. I.Y. is a Koshland Scholar and D.L. is the incumbent of the Ralph and Lois Silver Chair in Human Genomics. This research is supported by the Crown Human Genome Center, the Abraham and Judith Goldwasser Foundation and the Koshland Center for Basic Research.
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Present address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA
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Naama M Kopelman, Doron Lancet & Itai Yanai
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Kopelman, N., Lancet, D. & Yanai, I. Alternative splicing and gene duplication are inversely correlated evolutionary mechanisms.Nat Genet 37, 588–589 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1575
- Received: 07 October 2004
- Accepted: 13 April 2005
- Published: 15 May 2005
- Issue Date: 01 June 2005
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1575