Part I: Introductory Chapter
1. Pseudogenes: Four Decades of Discovery
Leonardo Salmena
Part II: Methods for Pseudogene Identification
2. Methods to Identify and Study the Evolution of Pseudogenes using a Phylogenetic Approach
Jacques Dainat and Pierre Pontarotti
3. Computational Methods For Pseudogene Annotation Based on Sequence Homology
Paul M. Harrison
4. A Methodology to Study pseudogenized lincRNAs
Sweta Talyan, Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro, and Enrique M. Muro
Part III: Pseudogene Repositories
5. GENCODE Pseudogenes
Cristina Sisu
Part IV: Methods to Study Pseudogene-Related Alterations in Cancer
6. Comprehensive Detection of Pseudogenes Transcribed by Readthrough
Rui Pinto, Daniel Sobral, and Ana Rita Grosso
Part V: Methods to Study Transcribed Pseudogenes
7. Mathematical modeling of ceRNA-based interactions
Andrew Dhawan
8. Pseudogenes as Competitive Endogenous RNAs: Target Prediction and Validation
Florian A. Karreth, Ugo Ala, Paolo Provero, and Pier Paolo Pandolfi
9-Pseudogenes as Competitive Endogenous RNAs: Testing miRNA Dependency
Xiaonan Xu and Florian A. Karreth
10. An Overview of the Computational Models Dealing with the Regulatory ceRNA Mechanism and ceRNA Deregulation in Cancer
Federica Conte, Giulia Fiscon, Pasquale Sibilio, Valerio Licursi, and Paola Paci
11. Studying the Oncosuppressive Functions of PTENP1 as a ceRNA
Glena Travis, Nahal Haddadi, Ann M. Simpson, Deborah J. Marsh, Eileen M. McGowan, and Najah T. Nassif
12. Methods to Study Protein-Binding to Pseudogene Transcripts
Eusebio Chiefari, Biagio Arcidiacono, Maria Mirabelli, Francesco Saverio Brunetti, Domenica Maria Corigliano, Daniela Patrizia Foti, and Antonio Brunetti
13. Chromatin Regulation at Parental Gene Promoters by Pseudogene Sense lncRNAs
Stefan Schoeftner, Michele Scarola, and Roberta Benetti
14.Pseudogenes: A Novel Source of Trans Acting Antisense RNAs
Nicholas C. Lister, Per Johnsson, Paul D. Waters, and Kevin V. Morris
Part VI: Methods to Study Translated Pseudogenes
15. Methods to Study Translated Pseudogenes: Recombinant Expression and Complementation, Targeted Proteomics and RNA Profiling
Anne Parle-McDermott, Niamh Bookey, Paula Meleady and Paola Drago
16. A Restriction Endonuclease-Based Assay to distinguish NANOGP8 Retrogene from Parental NANOG
Hamida Thakur and Abid R. Mattoo
Part VII: CRISPR/CAS9 Technology Applied To Pseudogenes
17-CRISPR/Cas Technologies Applied to Pseudogenes
Marianna Vitiello and Laura Poliseno
Part VIII: In Vivo Models to Study Pseudogenes
18. Strategies to Study the Functions of Pseudogenes in Mouse Models of Cancer
Ilah Bok and Florian A. Karreth
Part IX: Clinical Relevance of Pseudogenes
19. Pseudogene Profiling For Cancer Subtype Classification
Yan Zhang and Deyou Zheng
20. Pseudogenes as Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in Human Cancers
Cristina Sisu
21. Methods for the Detection of Circulating Pseudogenes and their use as Cancer Biomarkers
Manjusha Vaidya and Kiminobu Sugaya
Part X: Methods To Avoid Pseudogene Detection
22. Dealing with Pseudogenes in Molecular Diagnostics in the Next Generation Sequencing Era
Kathleen B.M. Claes, Toon Rosseel, and Kim De Leeneer