Figure 1
Using LocusLink entries for reviewed and provisional RefSeqs belonging to a given gene, and assigning the longest alignable RefSeq to the gene so that each gene is counted only once, the number of genes per megabase and GC content were plotted for the human genome using the April 2003 GoldenPath assembly (http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu). The nonoverlapping megabase-sized windows begin at 0, 250,000, 500,000, and 750,000 for each chromosome. Results for the window beginning at 250,000 are shown. The uppermost point on the graph represents Chromosome 6:31250001-32250000, which includes the entire MHC class III region.
