Functional categories of human genes

A representation of the functional categories to which genes in the human genome have been assigned on the basis of similarity to proteins of known function.

Cell adhesion (577, 1.9%) Chaperone (159, 0.5%) Miscellaneous (1318. 43%) Cytoskeletal structural protein (876, 2.8%) Extracellular matrix (437, 1.4%) Viral protein (100, 0.3%) - o Transfer/carrier protein (203, 0.7%) 'mfgfinfi’a'fifigl'aggfijgyff’ - - 0 Motor 376, 1.2% Transcription fad” (1850’ 6'0 A) Struc(tural protein of muscle (296, 1.0%) Nucleic aCId enzyme (2308, 7.5%) Proto-oncogene (902’ 23%) Select calcium-binding protein (34, 0.1%) Intracellular transporter (350, 1.1%) Transporter (533, 1.7%) Signaling molecule (376, 1.2%) Receptor (1543, 5.0%) Kinase (868, 2.8%) Select regulatory molecule (988, 3.2%) Transferase (610, 2.0%) Synthase and synthetase (313, 1.0%) Oxidoreductase (656, 2.1%) Lyase (117, 0.4%) Ligase (56, 0.2%) lsomerase (163, 0.5%) Hydrolase (1227, 4.0%) Molecular function unknown (12809, 41.7%)