Posts Tagged ‘pseudogenes’

Why rodent pseudogenes refuse to retire

Friday, November 23rd, 2012

http://genomebiology.com/2012/13/11/178

Cell – Expressed Pseudogenes in the Transcriptional Landscape of Human Cancers

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S009286741200640X?cc=y
Transcribed pgenes perhaps acting as ceRNAs very tissue specific, in a variety of cancers
Most less conservative threshold on calling transcription than in encodeprodpgenes

Landscape of Somatic Retrotransposition in Human Cancers – Science

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/06/27/science.1222077.abstract
Park lab led analysis of TCGA data

Proto-genes and de novo gene birth : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11184.html

primate OR pseudogene links

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

links to the correction/retraction of the Gilad et al. paper on primate olfactory receptors:
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0050148

Matsui et al. paper looking at genome-wide ORs:
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/5/1192.short

A general lack of compensation for gene dosage in yeast

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890323/?tool=pubmed
Interesting in relation to duplication, numbers of pseudogenes and gene expression levels.

Upstream open reading frames cause widespread reduction of protein expression and are polymorphic among humans

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/18/7507.long

effects of polymorphisms in uORFs in the human population… perhaps worth a larger survey

pseudogenes that might have saved us !

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120604155554.htm?fb_ref=.T829TjfxGmI.like&fb_source=home_oneline Specific inactivation of two immunomodulatory SIGLEC genes during human evolution
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/30/1119459109.abstract