Gene Content of the Human Genome

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This site (still in development) contains the results of a detailed analysis of the gene content of the human genome. A full description of this is contained in the paper 'Gene Content of the Human Genome' by Clamp et al (submitted).

This site enables people to access a range of properties for each of the 22,218 protein coding genes in Ensembl v35.

You can search for a single gene, sets of genes and genomic regions. More specifically you can search by :

Ensembl id e.g. ENSG00000126550
Refseq identitfier e.g. NM_001498
Pfam domain e.g. GCS, KRAB, kinase
Genomic region in the format chrN:start-end e.g. chr2:10004000-11200000

The two tables below show the results of our classification of Ensembl v35 into valid and invalid genes. A list of each gene in each class can be obtained by clicking on the number in the right hand column. Clicking on the class name will give a brief description of the class and how it is defined.

Valid genes	Gene count	Invalid genes	Gene count
ortholog	18868	transposon	499
cross species paralog	147	pseudogene	1069
human specific paralog	51	orphan	1169
pfam	36	redundant	197
functional transposon	2	artifact	77
functional pseudogene	4
orphans with protein evidence	8
special regions	91
Total	19207	Total	3011