International Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Research Article

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

Statistics of Flowers in each chromosome.


Chr.	Flower number	Flower number /1Mb	Flower length^a (Kb)	Copy unit length^a (Kb)	Effective number of copy units^a	Min. identity^a (%)	Max. identity^a (%)	Gene number^a,b	Pseudogene number/Gene number ^a,b

1	27	0.12	472	80	3.3	89.8	98.7	12	0.3
2	10	0.04	1,110	102	2.8	86.5	98.8	19	0.3
3	6	0.03	271	17	2.3	88.0	96.4	4	0.7
4	10	0.05	346	47	3.5	88.2	97.6	6	0.4
5	9	0.05	556	39	5.7	88.0	96.5	9	0.2
6	15	0.09	238	39	2.5	88.1	97.2	6	0.3
7	17	0.11	789	54	3.0	88.8	97.6	12	0.4
8	11	0.08	373	40	3.4	87.6	97.2	14	0.3
9	12	0.10	1,308	129	3.2	88.3	97.2	17	0.3
10	14	0.11	707	74	2.7	90.3	97.5	8	0.2
11	18	0.14	405	26	4.0	87.5	96.8	8	0.5
12	12	0.09	223	18	2.4	88.7	96.4	2	0.1
13	6	0.06	264	24	2.1	90.2	97.3	2	0.4
14	6	0.07	449	75	2.6	86.8	99.1	20	0.5
15	7	0.09	2,911	141	3.8	87.1	99.9	27	0.4
16	10	0.13	1,082	85	3.0	89.1	99.3	13	0.4
17	11	0.14	1,031	73	2.7	91.4	99.2	12	0.3
18	3	0.04	268	16	4.1	87.5	99.0	1	0.0
19	26	0.47*	422	23	3.9	86.5	97.0	7	0.2
20	5	0.08	374	35	2.7	86.1	98.5	2	0.0
21	1	0.03	94	5	2.0	95.6	98.2	1	1.0
22	10	0.29*	351	31	2.4	90.3	98.3	11	0.3
X	39	0.26	270	28	3.8	89.1	99.2	5	0.2
Y	6	0.23	2,319	110	6.1	88.6	99.9	30	0.6

Mean	12	0.12	693	52	3.5	88.7	98.0	10	0.3
S.D.	9	0.10	680	37	1.2	2.0	1.1	8	0.2
Mean w/o XY	11	0.11	638	51	3.3	88.7	97.9	10	0.3
S.D. w/o XY	7	0.10	607	37	0.9	2.1	1.0	7	0.2

^aMean values of each chromosome, ^bFlower genes.
* by Z-test.