Term Name: | IG_V_pseudogene |
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Synonyms: | IG V pseudogene, IG variable pseudogene, IG_variable_pseudogene, Immunoglobulin variable pseudogene, Immunoglobulin_variable_pseudogene |
Definition: | A pseudogenic variable region which closely resembles a known functional imunoglobulin variable 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 variable region of an immunoglobulin chain. |
Ontology: | Sequence Ontology [SO:0002102] |