Pseudogenes: are they "junk" or functional DNA?

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Annual Review of Genetics

• Publication date

  2003-11-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV.GENET.37.040103.103949PMID 14616058
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