Genomic Structure and Evolution of Multigene Families: “Flowers” on the Human Genome

Table 1

Statistical data for 291 Flowers. Definitions of each term are described in Section 2.

𝑁=291	Sum	Mean	S.D.	Median	Min.	Max.
Flower length (Kb)	179,197	615	1,349	210	51	11,695
𝐷 length/Flower length		0.33	0.22	0.27	0.01	0.96
Effective number of copy units		3	3	3	2	22
Copy unit length (Kb)		50	95	23	1	1,122
Length of inverted copy/𝐷 length		0.4	0.4	0.5	0.0	1.0
Minimum identity (%)		88.5	5.0	88.0	77.7	100.0
Maximum identity (%)		98.0	2.6	99.2	89.8	100.0
Gene region length/𝐷 length		0.4	0.3	0.4	0.0	1.0
Gene number^a	2,844	10	19	4	0	133
Pseudogene number/gene number^a		0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	1.0

^aThe number of Flower genes.