Figure 2.

Relationship between evolutionary divergence and the ratio of CpG contents in pseudogenes and their functional counterparts. (A) Analysis of 39 human pseudogenes [R² = 0.52; P < 0.01], (B) seven pseudogenes created from the same Arginino succinate synthetase gene [R² = 0.90; P < 0.01], and (C) five pseudogenes of the same Beta tubulin Q gene [R² = 0.73; P < 0.05]. The relative CpG content is the ratio of the overall CpG content in the pseudogene divided by overall CpG content of the functional gene.