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Table 1 Summary of disagreement among three measures: Inparanoid orthology, local synteny based orthology, and intron conservation ratio (ICR).

From: Identification of mammalian orthologs using local synteny

Orthology

ICR

Explanations

Non-syntenic Inparanoid orthologs

ICR = 0

RT miscalls (0.2%)

Part of 1-many (1.0%)

 

ICR > 0

Loss of local synteny (1.3%)

Syntenic non-Inparanoid orthologs

ICR ≥ 0.5

RT miscalls (0.2%)

Distant paralogs (2.1%)

 

ICR < 0.5

Distant paralogs (1.1%)

Non-syntenic non-Inparanoid orthologs

ICR = 1

Distant paralogs (2.2%)