Resolving the ortholog conjecture: orthologs tend to be weakly, but significantly, more similar in function than paralogs.

With this larger and more diverse dataset, the excess similarity of orthologs is also highly significant for the Molecular Function ontologies (all orthologs vs. all paralogs, t-test, p <2.2 10 −16 ), as for the Biological Process ( Fig. 3 ).

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