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Multigene families of hemoglobins, immunoglobulins and histocompatibility antigens are evolving under continued occurrence of unequal crossing-over and gene conversion. They provide a very different picture of evolution from the conventional models of population genetics; nevertheless their polymorphisms and gene diversity may be understood in terms of a common concept with the previous theory, i. e. probability of gene identity.
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Ohta, T. (1984). Multigene Families and their Implications for Evolutionary Theory. In: Frehland, E. (eds) Synergetics — From Microscopic to Macroscopic Order. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69540-7_14
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