Overlapping genes and the proteins they encode differ significantly in their sequence composition from non-overlapping genes
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202513
Abstract: Overlapping genes represent a fascinating evolutionary puzzle, since they encode two functionally unrelated proteins from the same DNA sequence. They originate by a mechanism of overprinting, in which point mutations in an existing frame allow… read more here.
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