Impact of the Presence of Paralogs on Sequence Divergence in a Set of Mouse-Human Orthologs

Table 2.

Gene Ontology Functional Classification

GO functional classification Number of human orthologs Number in intermediate paralog set Number in close paralog set
Total for which classification was possible 2525 49 94 
Anticoagulant 2 0 0 
Antioxidant 1 0 0 
Apoptosis regulator 20 1 1 
Cell adhesion molecule 133 2 5 
Cell cycle regulator 38 1 3 
Chaperone 160 1 5 
Chaperone regulator 17 0 2 
Defense/immunity protein 76 1 4 
Enzyme 1395 29 56 
Enzyme regulator 107 1 6 
Ligand binding or carrier 1121 25 38 
Lysine 10 0 0 
Molecular function unknown 113 1 4 
Motor 33 1 1 
Nucleic acid binding 595 17 32 (0.02)
Obsolete 88 0 4 
Protein stabilization 1 0 0 
Protein tagging 1 0 1 
Signal transducer 992 14 39 
Storage protein 2 0 0 
Structural protein 168 3 6 
Toxin 9 0 0 
Transporter 486 8 15 
  • P values have been calculated from a two-tailed Fisher's exact test and are shown for values <0.05. Correction for multiple tests has not been performed.

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