The size distribution of insertions and deletions in human and rodent pseudogenes suggests the logarithmic gap penalty for sequence alignment.

Abstract excerpt

The size distributions of deletions, insertions, and indels (i.e., insertions or deletions) were studied, using 78 human processed pseudogenes and other published data sets. The following results were obtained: (1) Deletions occur more frequently than do insertions in sequence evolution; none of the pseudogenes studied shows significantly more insertions than deletions. (2) Empirically, the size distributions of...

Topics

• Animals
• Humans
• Models, Genetic
• Mutation
• Pseudogenes
• Rodentia
• Sequence Alignment
• Sequence Deletion