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A genome-wide survey of human pseudogenes |
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| Published in | Genome Research. 2003, vol. 13, no. 12, p. 2559-67 | |
| Abstract | We screened all intergenic regions in the human genome to identify pseudogenes with a combination of homology searches and a functionality test using the ratio of silent to replacement nucleotide substitutions (KA/KS). We identified 19,724 regions of which 95% +/- 3% are estimated to evolve neutrally and thus are likely to encode pseudogenes. Half of these have no detectable truncation in their pseudocoding regions and therefore are not identifiable by methods that require the presence of truncations to prove nonfunctionality. A comparative analysis with the mouse genome showed that 70% of these pseudogenes have a retrotranspositional origin (processed), and the rest arose by segmental duplication (nonprocessed). Although the spread of both types of pseudogenes correlates with chromosome size, nonprocessed pseudogenes appear to be enriched in regions with high gene density. It is likely that the human pseudogenes identified here represent only a small fraction of the total, which probably exceeds the number of genes. | |
| Keywords | Benchmarking/methods/statistics & numerical data — Computational Biology/methods/statistics & numerical data — DNA, Intergenic/genetics — Genome, Human — Humans — Online Systems — Pseudogenes — Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid — Statistical Distributions | |
| Identifiers | DOI: 10.1101/gr.1455503 PMID: 14656963 | |
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| Citation (ISO format) | TORRENTS, David et al. A genome-wide survey of human pseudogenes. In: Genome Research, 2003, vol. 13, n° 12, p. 2559-67. doi: 10.1101/gr.1455503 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:30573 |
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