Origins and impact of constraints in evolution of gene families

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Table 3.

Genes and pseudogenes in E-families and N-families in yeast

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Table 3.

The ratio pseudogenes/genes is seven times less in E-families with a probability P < 1e-20 that the difference is due to chance. The same calculation can be done by comparing the ratio of genes in the two types of families to that of pseudogenes.

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