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These include 171 genes that have 'relocated' on average 1.61 megabase pairs in a subset of human haplotypes. Using a coalescent framework, we show that SD regions are slightly evolutionarily older when compared to unique sequences, probably owing to IGC. SNVs in SDs, however, show a distinct mutational spectrum: a 27.1% increase in transversions that convert cytosine to guanine or the reverse across all triplet contexts and a 7.6% reduction in the frequency of CpG-associated mutations when compared to unique DNA. We reason that these distinct mutational properties help to maintain an overall higher GC content of SD DNA compared to that of unique DNA, probably driven by GC-biased conversion between paralogous sequences<sup>5,6</sup>.","journal":"Nature","year":2023,"id":5672,"datarank":0.6681520944380261,"base_score":4.454347296253507,"endowment":4.454347296253507,"self_citation_contribution":0.6681520944380261,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6681520944380261,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":85,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.06,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":33,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-05-10","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":49020,"name":"Philip C. 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