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Table 2 Basic statistics of major human gene annotations

From: Impact of human gene annotations on RNA-seq differential expression analysis

 

GENCODE

GENCODE-Basic

RefSeq

RefSeq-Curated

NONCODE

Release

31

31

109.20190607

109.20190607

5

# of genes

60603

60603

39280

28784

96308

# of transcripts

226882

108243

160796

73442

172216

Genomic coverage of exon regions 1

4.72%

3.88%

4.11%

2.81%

4.71%

Avg. # of transcripts per gene

3.74

1.79

4.09

2.55

1.79

Avg. percentage of unique exons per gene 2

85.5%

89.0%

70.4%

75.1%

95.7%

  1. 1 Non-coding gene loci included.
  2. 2 Average percentage of exons with distinct junctions for each gene.