Table 1.
Frequency of Different Types of Overlaps Between Protein-Coding Genes in Human and Mouse Genomes
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Human |
Mouse |
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Overlapping genes |
Genes with overlapping exons |
Overlapping genes |
Genes with overlapping exons |
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| Total | 774 | 542 | 578 | 455 | ||
| Embedded | 126 (16.28%) | 15 (2.77%) | 53 (9.17%) | 7 (1.54%) | ||
| Tail to tail | 414 (53.49%) | 360 (66.42%) | 314 (54.32%) | 280 (61.54%) | ||
| Head to head | 234 (30.23%) | 167 (30.81%) | 211 (36.51%) | 168 (36.92%) | ||
| Involving coding sequence | 299 (55.17%) | 232 (50.99%) | ||||
| Coding–coding overlap
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57 (10.52%)
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31 (96.81%)
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