RT @pkuzhangy: This is an interesting but difficult-to-write paper. Many different flavors were mixed together including new gene originati…
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This is an interesting but difficult-to-write paper. Many different flavors were mixed together including new gene origination, cancer evolution (atavism), antagonistic pleiotropy, and brain evolution (radial unit hypothesis). Thus, 161 citations are barel
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RT @GenomeBiology: Ma, Li, Ma, @pkuzhangy & co explore the role that primate-specific genes play in cancer. They tend to be upregulated in…
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Ma, Li, Ma, @pkuzhangy & co explore the role that primate-specific genes play in cancer. They tend to be upregulated in cancer, either by copy number gains or promoter hypomethylation. These are often duplicates of genes that arose in unicellular life