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Identification and analysis of unitary pseudogenes: historic and contemporary gene losses in humans and other primates

Zhengdong D Zhang1, Adam Frankish2, Toby Hunt2, Jennifer Harrow2 and Mark Gerstein1,3,4*

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

2 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1HH, UK

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

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

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Genome Biology 2010, 11:R26 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-r26

Published: 8 March 2010

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