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Identification and analysis of unitary pseudogenes: historic and contemporary gene losses in humans and other primates

BACKGROUND: 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, they shed light on the unique fe...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Zhengdong D, Frankish, Adam, Hunt, Toby, Harrow, Jennifer, Gerstein, Mark
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2864566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20210993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-r26