The Novelty of Human Cancer/Testis Antigen Encoding Genes in Evolution

Table 1

Distribution of all human CT genes according to the origin of their orthologues in different taxa of human lineage.

Taxa	Chromosome names
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	X	Y
Eukaryote	1	1					1			2			1							1	1		1
Opisthokonta	1									1
Bilateria		1				1		1									2						2
Coelomata						2		2	1												1
Euteleostomi	4	4	2	1	1	2		2		3	1	2		1	1	1			1				3
Amniota	3														2		2
Eutheria	2		3	3	1	2		4	3		3	2			1	1	3	1	6	2		1	21	8
Euarchontoglires		1												1		1		1	1	1		1	4
Catarrhini																		1		1	1		28
Homininae								1										1					13
Homo sapiens															1								33
Total	11	7	5	4	2	7	1	10	4	6	4	4	1	2	5	3	7	4	8	5	3	2	105	8