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. 2001;2(11):COMMENT2008.
doi: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-11-comment2008. Epub 2001 Oct 17.

What does a worm want with 20,000 genes?

J Hodgkin  1
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What does a worm want with 20,000 genes?

J Hodgkin. Genome Biol. 2001.

Abstract

The number of genes predicted for the Caenorhabditis elegans genome is remarkably high: approximately 20,000, if both protein-coding and RNA-coding genes are counted. This article discusses possible explanations for such a high value.

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