Properties of overlapping genes are conserved across microbial genomes

Table 1.

Frequency of reading frame offset for the 64,989 overlaps identified in all microbial genomes.



Phase offset (reading frame shift)
Direction
0
+1/-1
+2/-2
Tandem (→→) 0.001 0.259 0.578
Antiparallel (→←,←→)
0.041
0.062
0.060

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  1. Genome Res. 14: 2268-2272

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