IG_J_pseudogene

Term ID

SO:0002101

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.

References

Ontology

Sequence Ontology