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Sequences X58411 (7,360 bp) and X58414 (5,867) encompass the mouse Jλ locus and contain four 12-RSS, three associated with functional Jλ gene segments and one associated with the pseudogene Jλ4 [ 54].
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 .
Here we report the behavior for further genomic properties that have not previously been found; in particular, for the occurrence of pseudogene and pseudomotif populations in the intergenic regions of genomes, the number of protein functions associated with a particular fold, and the number of expressed mRNA transcripts within a cell.
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.
It is possible that this is a retroprocessed pseudogene similar to those seen within the GAPDH family [ 49 ] .