Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Divergences Among the Human, Chimpanzee, and Gorilla Genes
Chromosomesa | Number of genes | Total length (nt) | nC | sG | nG/sG | nH + nC | sH + sC | (nH + nC)/(sH + sC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group A | 34b | 19,950 | 36 | 51 | 0.706 | 48 | 64 | 0.750 |
| Within rearranged regions | 14 | 8,199 | 12 | 18 | 0.667 | 22 | 32 | 0.688 |
| Outside rearranged regions | 20 | 11,751 | 24 | 33 | 0.727 | 26 | 32 | 0.813 |
| Group B | 35 | 29,382 | 81.5 | 85 | 0.956 | 121 | 110 | 1.100 |
a See text for the classification of chromosomes
b Thirty-one of the 34 genes are newly sequenced in this study