Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N pseudogene

Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein N pseudogene" (ENSG00000269896) is a processed pseudogene related to the functional SNRPN gene, which encodes a component of the small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex involved in pre-mRNA splicing. Pseudogenes like ENSG00000269896 are typically the result of genomic duplication or retrotransposition events, rendering them non-functional; they do not encode an active protein product and lack regulatory or catalytic activity. Some pseudogenes may have regulatory effects or participate in genome evolution, but the default expectation is that they are functionally inert[1][5]. If you intended to ask about the functional SNRPN gene (not the pseudogene), it encodes a protein important in mRNA splicing and is involved in the pathology of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes when altered[3][5]. The pseudogene does not share these functional or clinical properties.