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This is consistent with the observation that C. trachomatis TrpEb_1 (Figure 2) also seems to be a pseudogene.
Studies of human OR gene and pseudogene sequences covering approximately 150 full-length receptor genes [ 17, 18] were recently published.
Although the most likely outcome of such neutral evolution is for one of the paralogs to fix a null mutation and become a pseudogene, there is also the possibility of fixation of mutations that lead to a new function [ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].
If this continuous human region contained internal splice sites like a cDNA, we regarded this region as a potential pseudogene location.
If the BLASTN alignment spanned at least 240 nucleotides, and the percentage identity in the BLASTN comparison exceeded that for the corresponding segment of the TBLASTX comparison by more than 10%, this was taken as evidence that the protein potentially encoded by the novel sequence was under less selective pressure than is seen for known EPK family members, and is therefore probably a pseudogene or sequencing artifact.