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Beyond the Hox complex
1Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. npatel@midway.uchicago.edu
Genome Biology
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
The Hox complex is an example of a gene cluster created by tandem duplications. Recent findings suggest the Hox complex may be just part of a larger chromosomal assemblage of homeobox-containing genes that existed in the ancestor to all vertebrates.