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Little ROCK is a ROCK1 pseudogene expressed in human smooth muscle cells.
BMC genetics - 14 Apr 2010
Montefusco Maria Claudia, Merlo Kristen, Bryan Crystal D, Surks Howard K, Reis Steven E, Mendelsohn Michael E, Huggins Gordon S
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BACKGROUND: Sequencing of the human genome has identified numerous chromosome copy number additions and subtractions that include stable partial gene duplications and pseudogenes that when not properly annotated can interfere with genetic analysis. As an example of this problem, an evolutionary chromosome event in the primate ancestral chromosome 18 produced a partial duplication and inversion of rho-associated...
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