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Evolution of the phosphoglycerate mutase processed gene in human and chimpanzee revealing the origin of a new primate gene.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 2002
Betrán Esther, Wang Wen, Jin Li, Long Manyuan
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Processed genes are created by retroposition from messenger RNA of expressed genes. The estimated amount of processed copies of genes in the human genome is 10,000-14,000. Some of these might be pseudogenes with the expected pattern for nonfunctional sequences, but some others might be an important source of new genes. We have studied the evolution of a Phosphoglycerate mutase processed gene (PGAM3) described in...
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