Young proteins experience more variable selection pressures than old proteins

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Figure 3.
Figure 3.

The distribution of dN/dS values (ω1) among old and young mammalian genes. The old genes are skewed toward lower dN/dS values, but there is a substantial overlap. When comparing old and young genes we control for this bias by analyzing a subset of old and young genes with the same distributions of ω1 values.

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  1. Published in Advance October 4, 2010, doi: 10.1101/gr.109595.110 Genome Res. 20: 1574-1581

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