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The term paralog is often used in conjunction with discussions of hemoglobin genes. What does this term mean, and how does it apply to hemoglobin genes?
 
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Multiple proteins that arise from single-gene duplications are known as paralogs. The hemoglobin gene family encodes various polypeptides that are part of hemoglobin molecules and exemplify a multigene family that arose by duplication and dispersal into different chromosomes.
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