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Human protein-coding genes and gene feature statistics in 2019.

Allison PiovesanFrancesca AntonarosLorenza VitalePierluigi StrippoliMaria Chiara PelleriMaria Caracausi
Published in: BMC research notes (2019)
Comparison with previous reports reveals substantial change in the number of known nuclear protein-coding genes (now 19,116), the protein-coding non-redundant transcriptome space [now 59,281,518 base pair (bp), 10.1% increase], the number of exons (now 562,164, 36.2% increase) due to a relevant increase of the RNA isoforms recorded. Other parameters such as gene, exon or intron mean and extreme length appear to have reached a stability that is unlikely to be substantially modified by human genome data updates, at least regarding protein-coding genes. Finally, we confirm that there are no human introns shorter than 30 bp.
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