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If your friend with the belly spanning two ZIP codes wants to have a comeback, she might try looking down, then remarking, "Pretty good, huh?
The mouse and the human genes have very similar structures, consisting of 12 exons spanning about 28 kb.
The BACs at the boundaries between euchromatin and centric heterochromatin (see Table 1) identify 2.1 Mb (150 curated gene models) of heterochromatic sequence at the centric ends of the high-quality Release 3 sequence spanning the euchromatin [ 47].
As an example of functional duplication, we note that more than 60% of the entire zinc-finger (ZNF) families are mapped to chromosome 19, restricted to six large tandemly duplicated gene clusters spanning the chromosome.
Spanning 400 works and filling three venues, the exhibition of the collage artist's oeuvre --possibly "the largest retrospective of a living artist ever" (Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times )--draws respectful, if qualified, reviews.