Table 1.

BLAST results on mouse genome

No significant alignments on mouse genome	262	None
Significant alignments with mitochondrial genes	104	Mitochondrial genes
Multiple high-scoring alignments on mouse genome	19	Multiple hits
Significant alignments on mouse genome	1050	Genes (940)
		Annotated genes (793)
		Hypothetical genes (147)
		ESTs (47)
		Genomic sequences (63)

cDNA sequences are separated into four different categories based on the types of alignments generated. Alignments on the mouse genome were subdivided into Genes, ESTs, and genomic sequences. For the category ‘Genes’, we differentiated further between ‘annotated’ and ‘hypothetical’ depending on the gene RefSeq status recorded at NCBI.⁷²