nstd78 (Schrider et al. 2013)
- Organism:
- Human
- Study Type:
- Control Set
- Submitter:
- Fábio Navarro
- Description:
- An important class of gene copy-number polymorphism is gene duplications caused by retrotransposition, which result in a new intron-less copy of the parental gene (retroCNV) being inserted into a random location in the genome. Here we report the first genome-wide analysis of these variants in humans. We find that retroCNVs account for a substantial fraction of gene copy-number differences between any two individuals. Moreover, we show that these variants may often result in expressed chimeric transcripts, underscoring their potential influence in the evolution of novel gene functions. See Variant Summary counts for nstd78 in dbVar Variant Summary.
- Publication(s):
- Schrider et al. 2013