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    Microbial genes in the human genome: Lateral transfer or gene loss?
    Steven L. Salzberg, Owen White, Jeremy Peterson, Jonathan A. Eisen

    Science 292: 1903-1906, June 2001.

    About 40 genes were found to be exclusively shared by humans and bacteria and are candidate examples of horizontal transfer from bacteria to vertebrates.