Concerted evolution in a segment of the
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Leif Andersson; Kenth Gustafsson; Ann-Kristin Jonsson; Lars Rask
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Article
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1991
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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Genetic exchange of sequence information between members of a gene family, generally denoted gene conversion, causes a phenomenon called "concerted evolution" meaning that non-allelic genes do not evolve independently. The possible significance of this phenomenon in the evolution of major histocompa