Hominoid-specific de novo protein-coding genes originating from long non-coding RNAs.
Tinkering with pre-existing genes has long been known as a major way to create new genes.Recently, however, motherless protein-coding genes have been found to have emerged de novo from ancestral non-coding DNAs.How these genes originated is not well addressed to date.Here we identified 24 hominoid-specific de novo protein-coding genes with precise