The ambiguous boundary between genes and pseudogenes: the dead rise up, or do they?

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Published in Trends Genet on March 26, 2007

Authors

Deyou Zheng1, Mark B Gerstein

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. deyou.zheng@yale.edu

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