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Two chromosomal locations in both species harbor two neighboring TMC genes, Tmc5 and Tmc7 on murine chromosome 7, and Tmc6 and Tmc8 on murine chromosome 11; the human orthologues are located on the syntenic regions of chromosomes 16 and 17, respectively [ 7 ] . An additional murine locus on chromosome 8 represents a partial gene fragment, likely a pseudogene of Tmc2 .
The long branch of the TrpEa sequence of Chlamydia trachomatis reflects its likely status as a pseudogene.
Returning to the non-coding regions of the genome, we also plotted the occurrence of pseudogene families and pseudomotifs found in intergenic DNA (Figure 1b).
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].
A substantial proportion of disease alleles in Gaucher disease result from the introduction of mutations into the glucocerebrosidase gene from a tandemly repeated pseudogene (Tayebi et al.