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. 2016 Dec 23;17(Suppl 17):477. doi: 10.1186/s12859-016-1335-8

Table 1.

The number of involved pathways for each gene in KEGG pathway database

The number of involved pathways The number of genes
1 3157
2∼10 3405
11∼20 264
21∼30 70
31+ 76
The number of total pathways The number of total genes
295 6972

It shows how many genes belong to multiple pathways of homo sapiens in KEGG database. Among 6,972 genes that consist of 295 pathways, more than half of the genes belong to two or more pathways