Statistics about the GENCODE Release M8
The statistics derive from the gtf file that contains only the annotation of the main chromosomes.
For details about the calculation of these statistics please see the README_stats.txt file.
General stats
| Total No of Genes | 46983 |
| Protein-coding genes | 21930 |
| Long non-coding RNA genes | 9072 |
| Small non-coding RNA genes | 6108 |
| Pseudogenes | 9379 |
| - processed pseudogenes | 6567 |
| - unprocessed pseudogenes | 2391 |
| - unitary pseudogenes | 16 |
| - polymorphic pseudogenes | 32 |
| - pseudogenes | 168 |
| Immunoglobulin/T-cell receptor gene segments | |
| - protein coding segments | 494 |
| - pseudogenes | 205 |
| Total No of Transcripts | 113231 |
| Protein-coding transcripts | 50620 |
| - full length protein-coding | 39590 |
| - partial length protein-coding | 11030 |
| Nonsense mediated decay transcripts | 5229 |
| Long non-coding RNA loci transcripts | 12557 |
| Total No of distinct translations | 40588 |
| Genes that have more than one distinct translations | 8962 |
Further details on this version's gene and transcript types
| biotype | genes | transcripts |
|---|---|---|
| 3prime_overlapping_ncrna | 2 | 3 |
| antisense | 2189 | 3208 |
| bidirectional_promoter_lncrna | 12 | 22 |
| IG_C_gene | 13 | 20 |
| IG_C_pseudogene | 1 | 1 |
| IG_D_gene | 19 | 19 |
| IG_D_pseudogene | 4 | 4 |
| IG_J_gene | 14 | 14 |
| IG_LV_gene | 4 | 4 |
| IG_V_gene | 218 | 306 |
| IG_V_pseudogene | 156 | 156 |
| lincRNA | 3579 | 5362 |
| macro_lncRNA | 1 | 2 |
| miRNA | 2202 | 2202 |
| misc_RNA | 563 | 566 |
| Mt_rRNA | 2 | 2 |
| Mt_tRNA | 22 | 22 |
| non_stop_decay | 0 | 15 |
| nonsense_mediated_decay | 0 | 5229 |
| polymorphic_pseudogene | 32 | 37 |
| processed_pseudogene | 6393 | 6394 |
| processed_transcript | 749 | 13422 |
| protein_coding | 21930 | 50620 |
| pseudogene | 168 | 186 |
| retained_intron | 0 | 16496 |
| ribozyme | 22 | 22 |
| rRNA | 354 | 354 |
| scaRNA | 51 | 51 |
| sense_intronic | 253 | 277 |
| sense_overlapping | 23 | 47 |
| snoRNA | 1508 | 1508 |
| snRNA | 1382 | 1382 |
| sRNA | 2 | 2 |
| TEC | 2264 | 2333 |
| TR_C_gene | 8 | 11 |
| TR_D_gene | 4 | 4 |
| TR_J_gene | 70 | 70 |
| TR_J_pseudogene | 10 | 10 |
| TR_V_gene | 144 | 194 |
| TR_V_pseudogene | 34 | 34 |
| transcribed_processed_pseudogene | 174 | 179 |
| transcribed_unitary_pseudogene | 1 | 1 |
| transcribed_unprocessed_pseudogene | 148 | 162 |
| translated_processed_pseudogene | 0 | 12 |
| translated_unprocessed_pseudogene | 1 | 1 |
| unitary_pseudogene | 15 | 15 |
| unprocessed_pseudogene | 2242 | 2250 |