Diazepam binding inhibitor pseudogene

The diazepam binding inhibitor pseudogene (ENSG00000262471) is a nonfunctional DNA segment in the human genome that shares significant sequence similarity to the functional **diazepam binding inhibitor (DBI)** gene. As a pseudogene, it does not produce a functional protein product, does not serve as a therapeutic target, and has no established biological or pharmacological role. Pseudogenes like this commonly arise through gene duplication or retrotransposition events but lose their ability to encode a protein due to disabling mutations. Most pseudogenes do not contribute to cellular processes or disease, though rare cases exist where pseudogenes have regulatory effects; there is no current evidence to suggest this is the case for this specific pseudogene.