Pseudogenes variants

Question

[MiladAD]

Hello How do you behave with pseudogene variants, when you find them in Whole Exome Sequencing, Whole Genome Sequencing or even in sanger sequencing? pleased to hear your expreiences...

Answer 1

[shiyang_bio]

Usually I just regard them in the same way as other variants. They are "true" variants. But as these variants might not be functional, so I may discard them when I interpret the result or write an article.