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We have shown that the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a mechanism by which information from one gene can be transferred non-reciprocally to a repeated copy of the gene on the same chromosome. This intrachromosomal gene conversion may be important in maintaining sequence homogeneity within families of repeated eukaryotic genes.
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Klein, H., Petes, T. Intrachromosomal gene conversion in yeast. Nature 289, 144–148 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/289144a0
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