TY - JOUR AU - Menashe, Idan AU - Aloni, Ronny AU - Lancet, Doron PY - 2006 DA - 2006/08/29 TI - A probabilistic classifier for olfactory receptor pseudogenes JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 393 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Olfactory receptors (ORs), the largest mammalian gene superfamily (900–1400 genes), has >50% pseudogenes in humans. While most of these inactive genes are identified via coding frame (nonsense) disruptions, seemingly intact genes may also be inactive due to other deleterious (missense) mutations. An ultimate assessment of the actual size of the functional human OR repertoire thus requires an accurate distinction between genes and pseudogenes. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-393 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-7-393 ID - Menashe2006 ER -