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What does overexpression mean?

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Noun
  1. (genetics) The artificial expression of a gene in increased quantity
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Dr. Gaboury then became interested in developing molecular tools to assay the overexpression of the HER-2 oncogene.
Interestingly, overexpression of the functional wild-type HA-Mcm7p from an episome or an integrated allele was toxic for normal cell growth and viability.
The overexpression of autolysin genes involved in the restructuring of the cell wall further confirms these findings.
Thus, suppression of the cut mutant wing phenotype is most likely due to the overexpression of Lola.
Again, the types of cells affected correlate with the time of overexpression.
Mutation and overexpression of labial result in altered homeotic gene expression in the tritocerebrum.

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