Skip to main content
. 2013 Jun 19;2(2):414–431. doi: 10.3390/cells2020414

Table 1.

Levels and numbers in the seven-week human embryo.

Protein-coding genes ~20K
Developmental networks generating output processes (Table 2) ~60
Simple tissues ~2K *

* A simple tissue is a defined group of a single cell type with perhaps some associated matrix [13].