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Ortholog

An equivalent gene in different organisms, based on similarity of genetic sequence and the degree of correlation of conserved sequences. Functional genes in animals such as mice have been used to help find the similarly functional genes in humans – the human orthologs of the animal gene. The idea of conserved sequences generally relies on the assumption that organisms share a common genetic ancestry, but is equally well explained by the inference of common design.

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