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We used SLC4A family members to test the hypothesis that the origin and repeated duplication of the EGF-FGF cluster predated the human-mouse divergence.
Interestingly, this confluence immediately predated Lichtenstein's entrée into the world of the comic book image, but the relationship seems to be coincidental in view of the iconographic symbolism of his choices.
(Their 1969 Super Bowl triumph under Joe Namath predated the AFL-NFL merger.)
( The Wall Street Journal 's Alix Freedman subsequently published a fuller account that also predated Wigand.)
All these genes have orthologs in the mouse, suggesting that multiple duplications of an ancestral EGF-like gene predated the mouse-human divergence.