About the Authors

Wei-Hua Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Hua Chen, Xing-Ming Zhao

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Xing-Ming Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Hua Chen, Xing-Ming Zhao

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Vera van Noort

Current address: Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Peer Bork

bork@embl.de

Affiliations European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

This Formal Comment is a response to Singh et al., “Human Dominant Disease Genes are Enriched in Paralogs Originating from Whole Genome Duplication,” by the authors of the original research article “Human Monogenic Disease Genes Have Frequently Functionally Redundant Paralogs.”

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB. Performed the experiments: WHC XMZ. Analyzed the data: WHC XMZ. Wrote the paper: WHC XMZ PB VvN.