paralog « Back to Glossary Indexparalogs are homologs that arise because genetic duplication leads there to be multiple copies of a gene that can then evolve separately – can be in the same species or in different species Synonyms: paralogs, paralogousRelated Articles: Homology terminologyHomology terminology (homolog, ortholog, paralog) – plus sequence similarity and identityGlossary: homologASOs (AntiSense Oligonucleotides): what they are and how they workCommonly misspelled, miscapitalized, mis-auto-corrected, confused and/or misused biochemistry termsProtein isoforms and proteoforms« Back to Glossary Index
