Saturday 15 April 2017

genetics - Is the mutation rate in pseudogenes higher than in coding regions?


Coding genes are subject selective pressure that are not present for pseudogenes, that would suggest that pseudogenes have a higher mutation rate than coding regions. If so, how much higher?




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