Ψ CACNA2D4 - Nannospalax galili

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GlossID Species Gene Loss Mechanism Loss Type Lineage Specific Evidence Accession Nr.
GL_S2YRX0 Nannospalax galili LOF (frameshift, premature stop, ss) Full No Genomic XM_008839760.1

Statements

Type Excerpt DOI
Functional "eye-enriched visual perception genes" 10.1093/icb/icy004
Methodology & Validation "I obtained human curated mRNA reference sequences (accession prefix “NM_”) from NCBI’s nucleotide collection (Supplementary Table S1), and BLASTed (discontiguous megablast) the entire set of genes against the nucleotide collection for each of the remaining 29 mammals. For every species, I obtained gene models derived from NCBI’s Eukaryotic Genome Annotation (EGA) pipeline (accession prefix “XM_”) and/or curated mRNAs.[…] Curated mRNAs were assumed to encode functional protein products, as were gene models, unless there was an annotation indicating the gene likely encodes a “low quality protein”.[…] considered predicted pseudogenes with two or more corrected frameshifts and/or premature stop codons to be “probable pseudogenes” […]." 10.1093/icb/icy004

Curator Observations

Only “probable pseudogenes” defined as genes tagged with “low quality protein” containing multiple inactivating mutations and genes with absent BLAST results were collected from this publication, following the authors assumption “that a gene with multiple putative inactivating mutations is less likely to results from unfixed variants or sequencing or assembly errors”.