About the Authors
- Wei-Hua Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Hua Chen, Xing-Ming Zhao
Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Xing-Ming Zhao
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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
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Current address: Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Peer Bork
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* E-mail: 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.