PC+Discussion

From the DNA sequence we can see identical nucleotides between all organisms with minor differences. For the protein alignment, most organisms were similar with some differences in the gene. From the phylogeny tree we can cleary see that humans are most closely related to angola colobos so future research on these particular organisms would be really beneficial. Elephant and lesser hedgehog, prairie vole and chinese hamster, brown rat and house mouse all have their respective branch. thirteen -lined ground squirrel, lesser Egyptian jerboa and Damara mole rat didn't seem to have significance.

From the STRING image, we can see that HOXB13 is linked to various other proteins including but not limited to MEIS1, PRRX2, IL17RB, PRAC, PHF19. These proteins can be reserached further to find the correlation between these protein and if any of them are linked to development of prostate cancer.

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