Term Name: | IG_J_pseudogene |
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Synonyms: | IG J pseudogene, IG joining pseudogene, IG_joining_pseudogene, Immunoglobulin Joining Pseudogene, Immunoglobulin_Joining_Pseudogene |
Definition: | A pseudogenic joining region which closely resembles a known functional imunoglobulin joining gene but in which the coding region has stop codons, frameshift mutations or a mutation that effects the initiation codon that rearranges at the DNA level and codes the joining region of the variable domain of an immunoglobulin chain. |
Ontology: | Sequence Ontology [SO:0002101] |