pseudo-event

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Their research revealed that a mutation accumulation in pseudogene sequences typically disrupts the native network of stabilizing interactions, making it challenging for these sequences, if they were to be translated, to fold into functional proteins.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

The E.G.F. gene of the biggest whales, the filter-feeding baleen whales, has become nonfunctional over evolutionary time, turning into what scientists call a pseudogene.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

One biochemist I spoke to likened a pseudogene to a rusted-out car you stumble on in the forest—only, in Cameron’s case, they put a key in the ignition and the car turned on.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

This finding indicated that in this species, one of the CHMP3 copies was a functional pseudogene, making it more appropriately known as a 'retrogene'.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2017

The only P/Q-rich gene present in the H. comes genome assembly, scpp5, is represented by only three out of ten exons, indicating that it has become a pseudogene.

From Nature • Dec. 13, 2016