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Gene Duplication

"Gene Duplication" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Processes occurring in various organisms by which new genes are copied. Gene duplication may result in a MULTIGENE FAMILY; supergenes or PSEUDOGENES.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gene Duplication" by people in this website by year, and whether "Gene Duplication" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 104 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2008
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