## Description

This track shows syntenous (corresponding) regions between human and mouse chromosomes. The May 2004 (NCBI build35/UCSC hg17) assembly of the human genome was used to produce this annotation.

## Methods

We passed a 100k non-overlapping window over the genome and - using the blastz best in human genome alignments - looked for high-scoring regions with at least 40% of the bases aligning with the same region in human. 100k segments were joined together if they agreed in direction and were within 500 kb of each other in the mouse genome and within 4 Mb of each other in the human. Gaps were joined between syntenic anchors if the bases between two flanking regions agreed with synteny (direction and human location). Finally, we extended the syntenic block to include those areas.

## Credits

Contact Robert Baertsch at UCSC for more information about this track. Thanks to the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for providing the mouse sequence data.