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<molecular biology> Different genes whose nucleotide coding sequences overlap to some extent. The common nucleotide sequence is read in two or three different reading frames thus specifying different polypeptides.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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