Figure 3From: Conservation anchors in the vertebrate genomeOverlap between different ANCOR sets. The quantitative relations are illustrative. The highlighted square zooms in on rare ANCORs, which are predicted to be functional. Ro, top 5% of conserved elements in a human-rodent comparison; Ch, the approximately 2.5% of the human genome that can be reliably aligned with chicken [18]; Func, the 5% portion of the human genome estimated to be functional on the basis of rodent comparisons [10, 15]. Paralogs, noncoding sequences which belong to paralogous families within human genome [21]; Fi, elements conserved in the pufferfish Fugu rubripes genome [20]; RoU, ultraconserved elements, defined as > 200 bp of 100% identity between human, mouse and rat [14]; ChU, the same definition for ultraconserved elements applied to human-chicken comparison [18].Back to article page