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We were surprised to find over 60 cases of overlapping genes on the same strand, for which cDNA/EST data indicate that the 3' UTR of the upstream gene overlaps the 5' UTR of the downstream gene.
We used a permutation test to evaluate the significance of the median of minimum distances, excluding overlaps, between conserved word pairs.
For example, driving while intoxicated overlaps with alcoholism, but it constitutes an important issue in its own right because surveys consistently show that a substantial number of individuals who do not meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence admit to having driven an automobile while intoxicated.
We attempted to align these regions but there are no clear overlaps; the sizes and positions of the domains identified between attachment sites did not correspond to the groups we found.
CSE chr6p_0056662 (human location: chr6: 51140014-51141656) also overlaps one annotated novel gene, dJ402H5.