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Figure 4

From: Arrays of ultraconserved non-coding regions span the loci of key developmental genes in vertebrate genomes

Figure 4

Sets of UCRs sharing high sequence similarity are involved in regulation of related genes: the case of Iroquois gene clusters. Four similarly positioned UCRs are located within the two Iroquois gene clusters at chromosomes 5 and 16. Block arrows indicate significant sequence similarity. The arrow width is inversely proportional to the alignment BLASTN E-value. There are additional shorter blocks of similarity between the two three-gene clusters; however, most UCRs have diverged between the two clusters, while still preserved across vertebrates.

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