Table 1

Description of the studied network and the differences between duplicate genes and singletons

Gene categories

Number of nodes in the giant cluster (n)

Average degree (<k>)

Average shortest path length (<d>)

Average clustering coefficient (<c>)

All genes

12897

132.40

2.64

0.16

Duplicate genes

6507

120.11

n/a

0.14

Singletons

6390

144.92

n/a

0.17

Chung et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7:46   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-46