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Once gene duplicates have diverged sufficiently so that they differ in their functionality (or non-functionality), gene conversion events can become deleterious—for example, by introducing disrupting mutations from a pseudogene into its functional duplicate.
By contrast, comparison of a functional gene with a closely related processed pseudogene will often show no evidence of this codon-preserving bias in the pattern of nucleotide mismatches [ 47].
It has to be noted that the final assignment of OR gene or pseudogene status must be based on functional expression data.
Studies of human OR gene and pseudogene sequences covering approximately 150 full-length receptor genes [ 17, 18] were recently published.
The long branch of the TrpEa sequence of Chlamydia trachomatis reflects its likely status as a pseudogene.