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Table 2.

Number of overlapping exons

Chromosome	Number of exons		Two exons located on same strand							Two exons located on the opposite strand							Total
	Positive	Negative	Positive-Positive		Negative-Negative		Total	Frequency (%)	Ratio of overlapping loci/chromosome	Positive-Negative Convergent Group 5	Negative-Positive Divergent Group 6	Positive-Negative Comprehension Group 7	Negative-Positive Comprehension Group 8	Total	Frequency (%)	Ratio of overlapping loci/chromosome	Total	Frequency (%)	Ratio of overlapping loci/chromosome
	Positive	Negative	Unidirection Group 1	Comprehension Group 2	Unidirection Group 3	Comprehension Group 4	Total	Frequency (%)	Ratio of overlapping loci/chromosome	Positive-Negative Convergent Group 5	Negative-Positive Divergent Group 6	Positive-Negative Comprehension Group 7	Negative-Positive Comprehension Group 8	Total	Frequency (%)	Ratio of overlapping loci/chromosome	Total	Frequency (%)	Ratio of overlapping loci/chromosome

1	40,542	40,285	893	168,929	1,020	194,722	365,564	452.3	1,662	383	265	717	794	2,159	2.7	9.81	367,723	455.0	1,671
2	28,527	31,849	1,145	111,580	5,906	167,407	286,038	473.8	1,192	259	240	693	581	1,773	2.9	7.39	287,811	476.7	1,199
3	24,362	23,336	667	117,639	552	87,753	206,610	433.2	1,033	414	175	621	545	1,755	3.7	8.78	208,365	436.8	1,042
4	14,710	14,759	164	52,399	252	56,197	109,012	369.9	586	65	58	369	475	967	3.3	5.20	109,979	373.2	591
5	19,282	16,553	523	89,258	387	64,222	154,390	430.8	848	171	118	194	300	783	2.2	4.30	155,173	433.0	853
6	19,613	25,094	2,621	98,971	1,269	272,948	375,809	840.6	2,185	430	474	546	670	2,120	4.7	12.33	377,929	845.3	2,197
7	20,190	18,290	433	87,325	612	76,888	165,258	429.5	1,132	208	134	459	440	1,241	3.2	8.50	166,499	432.7	1,140
8	11,752	13,897	247	41,486	269	62,995	104,997	409.4	719	132	75	294	228	729	2.8	4.99	105,726	412.2	724
9	16,063	15,774	342	61,017	418	61,286	123,063	386.5	1,089	269	124	326	335	1,054	3.3	9.33	124,117	389.9	1,098
10	17,280	17,139	329	79,607	333	83,134	163,403	474.7	1,257	99	125	321	238	783	2.3	6.02	164,186	477.0	1,263
11	23,521	21,919	520	111,131	583	94,172	206,406	454.2	1,564	289	151	638	532	1,610	3.5	12.20	208,016	457.8	1,576
12	21,425	21,732	536	113,262	408	84,888	199,094	461.3	1,486	255	210	479	507	1,451	3.4	10.83	200,545	464.7	1,497
13	6,776	7,278	153	21,982	224	24,480	46,839	333.3	473	104	44	96	112	356	2.5	3.60	47,195	335.8	477
14	12,146	14,831	348	44,796	15,341	183,643	244,128	904.9	2,806	178	78	341	203	800	3.0	9.20	244,928	907.9	2,815
15	13,237	14,303	354	57,563	308	57,058	115,283	418.6	1,441	85	96	361	379	921	3.3	11.51	116,204	421.9	1,453
16	19,961	14,845	521	89,625	416	57,171	147,733	424.4	1,970	374	158	800	592	1,924	5.5	25.65	149,657	430.0	1,995
17	21,755	24,413	605	89,629	587	100,913	191,734	415.3	2,458	430	305	735	563	2,033	4.4	26.06	193,767	419.7	2,484
18	5,984	5,333	109	21,236	73	18,906	40,324	356.3	510	19	18	90	74	201	1.8	2.54	40,525	358.1	513
19	24,368	22,916	705	110,770	665	91,434	203,574	430.5	3,510	302	163	575	634	1,674	3.5	28.86	205,248	434.1	3,539
20	11,659	9,879	247	50,843	285	39,595	90,970	422.4	1,491	172	76	102	149	499	2.3	8.18	91,469	427.7	1,499
21	5,610	4,790	158	27,849	157	20,856	49,020	471.3	1,485	42	105	114	66	327	3.1	9.91	49,347	474.5	1,495
22	11,138	8,802	3,221	86,462	245	39,878	129,806	651.0	3,606	143	73	197	403	816	4.1	22.67	130,622	655.1	3,628
X	13,993	13,998	304	56,795	284	63,535	120,918	432.0	945	77	69	195	169	510	1.8	3.98	121,428	433.8	949
Y	882	495	12	2,347	9	967	3,335	242.2	176	2	0	5	8	15	1.1	0.79	3,350	243.3	176
Total	404,776	402,510	15,157	1,792,501	30,603	2,005,047	3,843,308	476.1	1,356	4,902	3,334	9,268	8,997	26,501	3.3	9.35	3,869,809	479.4	1,365