Plexiform Identity

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The accumulation of introns, so much more prevalent in mammals (especially in primates) than in metazoans and other eukaryotes, confers an evolutionary advantage by efficiently increasing the number of protein isoforms (Barbosa-Morais, Irimia, et al. 2012) without commensurate increases in the gene count.
Network Medicine: Complex Systems in Human Disease and Therapeutics
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