Table 3 Comparison of duplications and potential sequence misassignment errors in genome assemblies

From: Genome-wide detection of segmental duplications and potential assembly errors in the human genome sequence

	December 2001			April 2002			June 2002
	Length	Duplications	Errors	Length	Duplications	Errors	Length	Duplications	Errors
Chr1	2,564	99	115	2,459	68	60	2,469	71	44
Chr2	2,413	70	45	2,468	79	57	2,407	69	23
Chr3	2,048	49	90	2,047	29	73	1,949	31	40
Chr4	1,914	39	44	1,970	51	49	1,920	41	25
Chr5	1,848	55	90	1896	55	112	1,810	45	23
Chr6	1,783	58	56	1,828	43	153	1,703	29	6
Chr7	1,638	130	48	1,605	119	27	1,574	101	2
Chr8	1,457	35	66	1,484	33	43	1,439	26	40
Chr9	1,330	83	38	1,291	75	27	1,324	83	16
Chr10	1,421	74	51	1,385	72	39	1,344	63	13
Chr11	1,414	51	84	1,341	43	36	1,374	44	20
Chr12	1,396	30	83	1,342	24	32	1,313	28	34
Chr13	1,151	29	21	1,136	22	15	1,134	19	1
Chr14	1,065	27	8	1,054	23	10	1,043	13	0
Chr15	991	62	30	1,000	54	20	992	56	17
Chr16	938	65	44	932	67	32	817	60	21
Chr17	839	66	46	811	46	29	801	53	21
Chr18	818	16	59	809	12	32	775	12	14
Chr19	769	45	28	730	34	12	600	32	3
Chr20	630	10	5	628	12	4	628	11	1
Chr21	446	18	3	446	16	2	446	15	0
Chr22	478	28	0	477	29	1	477	28	0
ChrX	1,517	54	40	1,518	61	23	1,492	55	22
ChrY	584	86	2	584	95	2	584	85	1
ChrUn	74	10	1	125	11	43	14	4	1
Total	31,526	1,290	1,097	31,366	1,175	932	30,431	1,074	389
% range*		Duplication	Error		Duplication	Error		Duplication	Error
90-92%		135	0		137	0		117	0
92-94%		334	0		334	0		311	0
94-96%		391	0		382	0		367	0
96-98%		451	0		444	0		418	0
98-100%		884	1,097		724	932		665	389

*All numbers shown in the table are × 100 kb. *Sequence similarity between duplication by five levels of percent identity.

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