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Candidate Function Genomic Elements for Disease

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This visual abstract depicts the work of Ferris et al., who report an analysis of accelerated evolution in the elephant, little brown bat, big brown bat, orca, dolphin, naked mole rate, and thirteen-lined ground squirrel that reveals candidate functional genomic elements for shaping somatic mutation rate, cancer risk, digit development, immunity, glaucoma, pigmentation, and other clinical phenotypes.

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Ferris et al./Cell Reports

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