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At, and only at, the junction site (green bar), the two sequences are reversely complementary to each other, say 5’ATCGGT3’ vs 3’TAGCCA5’, while the rest parts of the two genes are not related to each other. In most cases this homologous region is short in length, and thus is coined as short homologous sequence, or SHS.
