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gene fusion |
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The accidental joining of DNA
of two genes, such as can occur in a translocation or inversion. Gene
fusions can give rise to hybrid proteins or to the misregulation of
the transcription of one gene by the cis regulatory elements (enhancers)
of another. |
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