Human–Ovine Comparative Sequencing of a 250-kb Imprinted Domain Encompassing the Callipyge (clpg) Locus and Identification of Six Imprinted Transcripts: DLK1, DAT, GTL2, PEG11, antiPEG11, and MEG8

Table 1.

Interspersed Repeats in the Callipyge Imprinted Domain

Human (250,000 bp analyzed) Ovine (214,466 bp analyzed)
Family No. of elements Percentage of sequence Family No. of elements Percentage of sequence
SINEs 132 11.01% SINEs 83 5.58%
 ALUs 70 7.84%  rum.spec. 40 3.39%
 MIRs 62 3.17%  MIRs 33 1.74%
LINEs 56 10.27% LINEs 63 10.30%
 LINE1 22 7.96%  LINE1 34 6.76%
 LINE2 31 2.06%  LINE2 17 1.25%
 L3/CR1 3 0.25%  L3/CR1 2 0.24%
 BovB/Art2 10 2.05%
LTR elements 19 4.77% LTR elements 13 1.70%
 MaLRs 8 0.96%  MaLRs 5 0.36%
 ERVL 7 3.26%  ERVL 5 1.08%
 ERV-Class I 1 0.20%  ERV-Class I 2 0.11%
 ERV-Class II 0 0.00%  ERV-Class II 0 0.00%
DNA elements 13 1.46% DNA elements 9 0.66%
 MER1 type 10 0.70%  MER1 type 6 0.45%
 MER2 type 2 0.68%  MER2 type 1 0.03%
Unclassified 0 0% Unclassified 1 0.04%
Total interspersed  repeats 27.51% Total interspersed  repeats 18.29%
Simple repeats 44 1.04% Simple repeats 33 0.91%
Low complexity 31 0.84% Low complexity 32 0.51%
  • Repeats are labeled as defined in Smit (1999) and Smit and Green (2000).

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  1. Genome Res. 11: 850-862

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