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Surfeit

Introduction

Surfeit is a human gene cluster that consists of a group of very tightly linked genes on chromosome 9 that do not share sequence similarity. Genes in this cluster are numbered 1 through 6: SURF1, SURF2, SURF3, SURF4, SURF5, and SURF6.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Duhig T, Ruhrberg C, Mor O, Fried M (August 1998). “The human Surfeit locus”. Genomics. 52 (1): 72–8. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5372. PMID 9740673.