Olfactory receptor family 13 subfamily I member 1 pseudogene (OR13I1P)

Olfactory receptor family 13 subfamily I member 1 pseudogene (OR13I1P) is a human pseudogene belonging to the olfactory receptor family, which in their functional forms are G protein-coupled receptors responsible for odorant detection. However, as a pseudogene, OR13I1P contains disabling mutations that prevent it from encoding a functional olfactory receptor protein and thus does not participate in sensory transduction or have known biological activity[1][2][5][7]. It may be present in transcriptomic studies but lacks protein-coding capacity. There is no evidence it is implicated as a therapeutic or diagnostic target, though pseudogenes as a class are increasingly investigated for their regulatory potential or association in cancer transcriptomes, but no such functions are established for OR13I1P specifically[6].

Other names

OR13I2POlfactory receptor family 131 subfamily I member 2 pseudogeneOR13I1P