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Pseudogenes

"Pseudogenes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Genes bearing close resemblance to known genes at different loci, but rendered non-functional by additions or deletions in structure that prevent normal transcription or translation. When lacking introns and containing a poly-A segment near the downstream end (as a result of reverse copying from processed nuclear RNA into double-stranded DNA), they are called processed genes.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pseudogenes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pseudogenes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 26 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2004
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