Comparative and Functional Genomics
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 60964, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/60964
Research Article

Expression Divergence of Tandemly Arrayed Genes in Human and Mouse

Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg 24060, VA, USA

Received 4 July 2007; Accepted 7 September 2007

Academic Editor: Paul Denny

Copyright © 2007 Valia Shoja et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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