[ensembl-dev] Do pseudogenes' have a "parent gene" annotation?

[Luke Goodsell]

Hi,

For a given pseudogene in EnsEMBL API, is there an annotation to access the parent gene from which it is derived? For example, if I get PMS2P2 (PMS2P2), is there a link to PMS2 (parent gene)?

I'd like to be able to get a list of all pseudogenes and, where applicable, get a list of "parent genes" from which they are derived. I've already written a script that works for pseudogenes like PMS2, where the pseudogene's official symbol is the parent's gene symbol + some other characters, excluding splits in the middle of multi-digit numbers. However, this does not capture all parent genes, and will have some false positives, too.

Kind regards,
Luke

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