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Ucsc Tables : What Is The Difference Between Refgene And Xenorefgene Tables ?

Hi All,

Both of these two tables have the same structure ( chimp, PanTro3) BUT one have much more data than the other, why ? and what is the difference between the two of them.

Rad

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updated by brentp brentp • written by Radhouane Aniba Radhouane Aniba

@Rahouane: you've already asked more than 20 questions on this site but you didn't bother to validate most of the people's answers. Please, take a few minutes to validate the answers, thanks.

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

@Rahouane: I concur with Pierre, since @brentp's answer below is correct, here is a perfect opportunity to validate and choose this repsonse.

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written by Casey Bergman Casey Bergman

Thank you for your answers, Answers validated

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written by Radhouane Aniba Radhouane Aniba

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xenoRefGene description says: This track shows known protein-coding genes from organisms other than [your organism], taken from the NCBI mRNA reference sequences collection (RefSeq).

Whereas refGene contains only genes from [your organism].

You can find this by clicking the "Describe Table Schema" button on the UCSC tables page.

There is more information about refSeq here.

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