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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am using Ensembl human reference genome and annotation for alignment and mapping rna-seq data. In my results I get ~ 60,000 unique ENSG ID. I am wondering why there are so many more than ~ 20,000 genes in the human genome.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Pankaj<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Pankaj Agarwal, M.S<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Bioinformatician<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Database Analyst II<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Surgical Sciences Applied Therapeutics Section<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Department of Surgery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Duke University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">919-681-2251<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><a href="mailto:p.agarwal@duke.edu"><span style="color:blue">p.agarwal@duke.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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