overlapping genes show up all over the place and I think they contribute to lots of errors in papers. During my postdoc I analyzed the results from a yeast gen

overlapping genes show up all over the place and I think they contribute to lots of errors in papers. During my postdoc I analyzed the results from a yeast gene survey where the authors ignored genes overlapping and misannotated genes, imputing their function when really it was the overlapping gene. This is where I started to learn that "if it's in Nature, it's probably wrong"