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Full-length hOR genes are present in more than 50 distinct clusters and are interspersed with pseudogene OR sequences to a variable degree (data not shown).
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].
It is possible that this is a retroprocessed pseudogene similar to those seen within the GAPDH family [ 49 ] .
The potential significance of pseudogene contamination within the hit set is highlighted by a study of pseudogenes on chromosomes 21 and 22 [ 46] which showed that approximately 20% of identifiable potential protein-coding regions represent pseudogenes.
The presence of internal stop codons and frameshift mutations was used to classify a sequence as a pseudogene only if the feature could be confirmed in another sequence derived from an independent cDNA or genomic library, or if the original sequence contained three or more such features in any 60-amino-acid stretch.