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These include 29 hOR genes that are apparently identified as pseudogenes in the HORDE database, but encode functional hOR candidates by our analysis, as well as 10 hORs not found in HORDE (see Materials and methods).
No ESTs have been detected for the three genes that we considered pseudogenes (or 'short' AQPs).
Only four RSS, one 12-RSS and three 23-RSS have RIC scores below their respective threshold scores, and all four are associated with pseudogenes.
One interesting facet is that each of these three genes or pseudogenes contains three hydrophobic regions that could form transmembrane helices.
The repertoire of human OR (hOR) genes contains a large fraction of pseudogenes, suggesting that olfaction became less important in the course of primate evolution.