Title |
Evolutionary direction of processed pseudogenes
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Published in |
Science China Life Sciences, June 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/s11427-016-5074-x |
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Authors |
Guoqing Liu, Xiangjun Cui, Hong Li, Lu Cai |
Abstract |
While some pseudogenes have been reported to play important roles in gene regulation, little is known about the possible relationship between pseudogene functions and evolutionary process of pseudogenes, or about the forces responsible for the pseudogene evolution. In this study, we characterized human processed pseudogenes in terms of evolutionary dynamics. Our results show that pseudogenes tend to evolve toward: lower GC content, strong dinucleotide bias, reduced abundance of transcription factor binding motifs and short palindromes, and decreased ability to form nucleosomes. We explored possible evolutionary forces that shaped the evolution pattern of pseudogenes, and concluded that mutations in pseudogenes are likely determined, at least partially, by neighbor-dependent mutational bias and recombination-associated selection. |
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