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A comprehensive collection of OR genes in complete mammalian genomes |
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| Organism |
Species name |
Genome assemblya |
Number of OR genesb |
Number of genomic clusterswith more than one gene |
Number of singleton clusters(a single gene) |
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| Human |
Homo sapiens |
hg17 |
851 (765) |
50 |
30 |
| Dog |
Canis familiaris |
canFam1 |
922 (804) |
45 |
14 |
| Mouse |
Mus musculus |
mm6 |
1,296 (1,228) |
43 |
20 |
| Rat |
Rattus norvegicus |
rn3 |
1,758 (1,654) |
53 |
33 |
| Opossum |
Monodelphis domestica |
monDom1 |
1,518 (1,518) |
92 |
71 |
| Chicken |
Gallus gallus |
galGal2 |
554 (45) |
7 |
4 |
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aFormal release name as appears in UCSC genome browser [56]. bIn parentheses: the number of genes used in this study after discarding genes that are mapped to 'chrUn' or 'random', and human genes from subfamily OR7E. OR, olfactory receptor; UCSC, University of California at Santa Cruz. | |||||
Aloni et al. Genome Biology 2006 7:R88 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-r88 |
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