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ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2012

Gene balance hypothesis: connecting issues of dosage sensitivity across biological disciplines.

James A Birchler, Reiner A Veitia

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Review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 325 papers.

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325citing papers in PubMed
22.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

325 citing papers in PubMed, 615 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

James A BirchlerDivision of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. birchlerj@missouri.edu
Reiner A Veitia
Institut Jacques Monod · FRUniversity of Missouri · US

Funding

Dosage Compensation in DrosophilaR01GM068042 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI BIRCHLER, JAMES A · 2003 to 2012
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068042NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM068042
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We summarize, in this review, the evidence that genomic balance influences gene expression, quantitative traits, dosage compensation, aneuploid syndromes, population dynamics of copy number variants and differential evolutionary fate of genes after partial or whole-genome duplication. Gene balance effects are hypothesized to result from stoichiometric differences among members of macromolecular complexes, the interactome, and signaling pathways. The implications of gene balance are discussed.

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Evolution, MolecularModels, GeneticPhenotypePloidiesChromosomesGene DosageGenomeQuantitative Trait, Heritable

Identifiers

PMID22908297
PMCPMC3443177
OpenAlexW1981195576

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