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The Gene Family Database is a prototype database for integrating biological data generated by the Human Genome Project.
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Multigene family
A number of identical or related genes present in the same organism, usually coding for a family of related polypeptides.
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multigene family
A collection of genes with similar or identical sequences, presumably of common origin.
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Multi-gene family: A group of genes that are related by sequence homologies; usually are also related by their functions or by the processes in which they participate.
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Homeobox (Hox gene family)
Achaete-scute complex (Neuroblast formation)
Genes-encoding immune system proteins
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Homeobox (Hox gene family)
Achaete-scute complex (Neuroblast formation)
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Genes-encoding immune system proteins ...
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Related Terms: Gene family
Groups of closely related genes that make similar products.
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The discovery of the homeotic Hox gene family in vertebrates in the 1980s, allowed researchers in developmental biology to empirically assess the relative roles of the above two factors, ...
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The globin family is the best studied gene family. Hemoglobin consists, in humans, of 2 a-chains and 2 b-chains clustered about a common heme. Human beta-globin genes are scattered at five loci on human chromosome 11.
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Scientists who identified the vertebrate hedgehog gene family, found three of them. So now you have three genes that are closely related, they're expressed at different times and different tissues. They had to give them different names.
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: The preservation of sequence homology among members of a multigene family within the same species.
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