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Table 4 A comparison between the chromosome territory positioning of actual porcine chromosomes from 2D FISH studies with respect to synteny with human chromosomes, porcine epigenetic markers, in silico gene data and chromosome size

From: Interphase chromosome positioning in in vitro porcine cells and ex vivo porcine tissues

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

11

13

15

16

17

18

X

Chromosome size (Mbp):

295

168

149

146

118

177

141

158

94

230

161

101

77

68

145

Sequenced Length (Mbp):

295

140

124

136

101

123

136

120

80

145

135

77

64

54

126

Known Protein-coding Genes:

80

56

32

40

39

46

125

20

3

29

13

8

28

9

17

Novel Protein-coding Genes:

1,716

1,642

1,070

1,012

923

1,304

1,463

552

289

843

698

326

532

355

684

Pseudogene Genes:

62

31

23

28

22

22

54

20

6

32

23

4

16

11

32

miRNA Genes:

68

45

27

26

27

46

50

21

17

30

19

19

17

23

75

rRNA Genes:

12

8

10

16

10

11

11

5

7

10

6

7

6

3

9

snRNA Genes:

106

44

52

51

47

69

60

38

29

60

55

42

28

27

60

snoRNA Genes:

65

34

30

26

20

41

52

20

10

31

28

9

10

5

26

Misc RNA Genes:

20

11

7

14

5

12

10

10

6

9

6

2

2

3

8

Total number of genes

2129

1871

1251

1213

1093

1551

1825

686

367

1044

848

417

639

436

911

Predicted gene density

7.2

11.1

8.4

8.3

9.3

8.8

12.9

4.3

3.9

4.5

5.3

4.1

8.3

6.4

6.3

  1. In silico information with the current (as of September 2010) number of genes mapped and predicted for the porcine genome derived from e!Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/Sus_scrofa/Location/Genome). Each gene category has been added together to show the total number of genes assigned to each chromosome. The table shows individual porcine chromosome size in Mbp [52] and length sequenced in Mbp. The predicted gene density of each chromosome was calculated by: the total number of genes/chromosome size. The higher the gene density value, the more gene dense the chromosome.