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Table 3 Summary of duplication rates

From: Quantifying the major mechanisms of recent gene duplications in the human and mouse genomes: a novel strategy to estimate gene duplication rates

Categories

Human

Mouse

 

Two-copy gene families

Entire genome

Two-copy gene families

Entire genome

TAG rate (Ru)

0.012 to 0.020

0.076 to 0.406

0.027 to 0.053

0.202 to 1.71

Retro rate (Rr)

0.176 to 0.228

0.298 to 0.388

0.494 to 0.642

0.733 to 0.953

Total weight (W)

61.0% to 73.2%

53.3% to 72.6%

68.5% to 77.2%

62.9% to 76.3%

Ru + Rr

0.188 to 0.248

0.374 to 0.794

0.521 to 0.695

0.935 to 2.66

Gene duplication Rate (R)

0.257 to 0.407

0.515 to 1.49

0.675 to 1.01

1.23 to 4.23

  1. The rates are expressed as × 10-3 per gene per million years. The lower and upper limits are calculated through all combinations of different tandemly arrayed gene (TAG) or retrogene identification criteria