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This is the origin of GLUD2 , a retrogene derived from GLUD1 , which encodes glutamate dehydrogenase.
As CDY is a retrogene (see above) that has not been duplicated together with its ancestral regulatory sequences, it is clear that the DDC model is not the only route by which to achieve spatial partitioning of ancestral expression patterns.
Usually this new “retrocopy” is not expressed, but if the DNA inserts near an active promoter, it can become a transcribable “retrogene”.