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Table 5 OMIM search for genes implicated in neurological processes and the number of these identified as evolving under positive selection in the chicken and zebra finch lineages

From: Molecular evolution of genes in avian genomes

Search term*

NOMIM

Nalign

PSchicken

PSzebra

P

Learning

159

74

5

10

0.050

Neurogenesis

472

211

15

27

0.017

Neurodegeneration

246

107

8

16

0.025

  1. *See Materials and methods. 'NOMIM' is the number of human genes identified in OMIM, 'Nalign' is the number NOMIM genes for which we had data from multispecies alignments. 'PSchicken' and 'PSzebra' are the number of unique positively selected genes found in the chicken and zebra finch lineages, respectively. P is the significance level in Fisher's exact test comparing the incidence of positively selected genes in chicken and zebra finch.