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Comparative analysis of processed ribosomal protein pseudogenes in four mammalian genomes

Suganthi Balasubramanian1, Deyou Zheng2, Yuen-Jong Liu1, Gang Fang1, Adam Frankish3, Nicholas Carriero4, Rebecca Robilotto5, Philip Cayting1 and Mark Gerstein4,1,5*

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1 Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

2 The Saul R Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY 10461, USA

3 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1HH, UK

4 Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

5 Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:R2 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-1-r2

Published: 5 January 2009

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Figures 5 and 6: the variation in the number of pseudogenes identified when the percent identity cutoff and e-value cutoff is varied. Figure 7: the results of manual annotation of the RPS27L/Rps27l locus in human and mouse.

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Additional data file 2:

Processed pseudogenes associated with each RP gene for human, mouse, chimpanzee and rat.

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