Pseudogenes: Pseudo or Real Functional Elements?

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 171-177

  Li, Wen ^a,b   Yang, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Xiu Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Categorization; Function; Origination; Pseudogene

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84876782990     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: 18735533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.03.003     Document Type: Review

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