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. 2009 May 14;9:102. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-102

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Progressive accumulation of mutations in the AluYh3a3 master gene. The master gene model of proliferation accounts for the sharing of mutations by several groups of elements in the AluYh3a3 subfamily in chimpanzees. A complete gene conversion event appears to have inactivated the master gene along the human lineage.