Table 1: Genomic variation in an individual in numbers. All data is given for an individual exome or genome. The number of nonsynonymous variants, which induce a change in amino acid, has been specified as these are more likely to have a functional effect than synonymous variants (where the amino acid remains the same despite the nucleotide change), although functional synonymous variants have been described.

Number of variants Similarity between two individual genomes 99.5% Whole genome sequencing variant uptake 3,5 million SNP variants 1000 large CNVs Whole exome sequencing variant uptake 20.000–100.000 variants Coding variants in the genome 20.000–25.000 variants Nonsynonymous coding variants in the genome 9.000–11.000 variants