[ensembl-dev] Number of ENSGENE ID

Thibaut Hourlier thibaut at ebi.ac.uk
Thu Jun 8 11:06:17 BST 2017


Hi Pankaj
Which Ensembl release did you use for your analyses?

In the latest release, e89, there is around 20,000 protein coding genes in the human genome and almost 40,000 pseudogenes and non coding genes.

Thanks
Thibaut

> On 7 Jun 2017, at 16:26, Pankaj Agarwal <p.agarwal at duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am using Ensembl human reference genome and annotation for alignment and mapping rna-seq data.  In my results I get ~ 60,000 unique ENSG ID.  I am wondering why there are so many more than ~ 20,000 genes in the human genome.
> Thanks,
> - Pankaj
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