A gene family is composed of several genes which share similar features. A gene cluster is part of a gene family. A gene cluster is a group of two or more genes found within an organism`s DNA that encode for similar polypeptides, or proteins, which collectively share a generalized function and are located within a few thousand base pairs of each ....
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A set of closely related genes that code for the same or similar proteins and which are usuallygrouped together on the same chromosome. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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