Identification and analysis of unitary pseudogenes: historic and contemporary gene losses in humans and other primates
Zhengdong D Zhang, Adam Frankish, Toby Hunt, Jennifer Harrow, Mark Gerstein;Zhengdong D Zhang;Adam Frankish;Toby Hunt;Jennifer Harrow;Mark Gerstein;
Genome biology2010Vol. 11pp. R26-
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gerstein2010genomeidentification
Abstract
Unitary pseudogenes are a class of unprocessed pseudogenes without functioning counterparts in the genome. They constitute only a small fraction of annotated pseudogenes in the human genome. However, as they represent distinct functional losses over time, ...