IG_V_pseudogene

Term ID

SO:0002102

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.

References

Ontology

Sequence Ontology