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Transcriptional activity and strain-specific history of mouse pseudogenes

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Authors

Muir, Paul 
Frankish, Adam 
Fiddes, Ian 

Abstract

Abstract: Pseudogenes are ideal markers of genome remodelling. In turn, the mouse is an ideal platform for studying them, particularly with the recent availability of strain-sequencing and transcriptional data. Here, combining both manual curation and automatic pipelines, we present a genome-wide annotation of the pseudogenes in the mouse reference genome and 18 inbred mouse strains (available via the mouse.pseudogene.org resource). We also annotate 165 unitary pseudogenes in mouse, and 303, in human. The overall pseudogene repertoire in mouse is similar to that in human in terms of size, biotype distribution, and family composition (e.g. with GAPDH and ribosomal proteins being the largest families). Notable differences arise in the pseudogene age distribution, with multiple retro-transpositional bursts in mouse evolutionary history and only one in human. Furthermore, in each strain about a fifth of all pseudogenes are unique, reflecting strain-specific evolution. Finally, we find that ~15% of the mouse pseudogenes are transcribed, and that highly transcribed parent genes tend to give rise to many processed pseudogenes.

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Article, /631/114/2401, /631/114/2785, /631/136/334/1874/345, /631/208/212/2304, /45/91, /64/60, article

Journal Title

Nature Communications

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Journal ISSN

2041-1723

Volume Title

11

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group UK