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overlapping genes

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overlapping genes [¦ō·vər‚lap·iŋ ′jēnz]
(genetics)
Genes having nucleotide sequences that may overlap in a way that involves control genes or structural genes.


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At the same time that we were figuring out that the SCA8 mutation is expressed in both directions by two overlapping genes, a separate paper came out showing that similar to SCA8, the CTG expansion mutation for myotonic dystrophy type 1 is also expressed in both directions.
The researchers next established that HAR1 includes two overlapping genes.
The ATPase 8 gene, discovered originally and identified genetically and functionally in yeast, is one of the least conserved of all human genes, one of the few human overlapping genes, and one of the few with a polycistronic messenger RNA.
 
 
 
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