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Domain duplication, divergence, and loss events in vertebrate Msx paralogs reveal phylogenomically informed disease markers

John R Finnerty, Maureen E Mazza and Peter A Jezewski*

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:18 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-18

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Pitfalls in the phylogenomic evaluation of human disease-causing mutations

Andrew OM Wilkie Journal of Biology 2009, 8:26 (24 March 2009)

Andrew Wilkie discusses (the pitfalls of) a new phylogenomic study, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, that has identified conserved sequences in the MSX homeobox family proteins suspected to be involved in human diseases.