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The phenomenon of pseudoallelism promises to contribute much to our understanding of the gene—how it functions, how it mutates, how it evolves. The functional aspect will be the central theme of this paper. Attention will be focused chiefly on examples of “position pseudoallelism;” namely, those cases in which there is a position effect or phenotypic difference between the “cis-type” (ab/++) and “trans-type” (a+/+b) of double mutant heterozygote. In most of these examples a close functional relationship between the adjoining loci is indicated.
Presented at the Symposium on “Pseudoallelism and the theory of the gene” at the annual meeting of The Genetics Society of America, held at Gainesville, Florida, September 11, 1954.
This study was aided by a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission (No. 25618).
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Lewis, E.B. (2004). Some Aspects of Position Pseudoallelism. In: Lipshitz, H.D. (eds) Genes, Development and Cancer. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8981-9_9
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