Identification of Alternate Polyadenylation Sites and Analysis of their Tissue Distribution Using EST Data

Table 3.

Polyadenylation Site Biases Found in Each Category of Tissues (Mouse)

Tissue type Total EST in tissue Total libraries in tissue mRNAs with bias in tissue Total biases in tissue
Embryo 131214 10 56 74
Breast 106676 5 35 48
Unknown 102196 9 26 31
Thymus 74815 3 9 9
Testis 54729 3 18 24
Brain 54255 3 4 4
Derm 43907 3 6 7
Kidney 40994 4 28 39
Fetus 37562 2 7 7
Muscle 34710 2 2 2
Nervous 29666 2 4 4
Liver 29132 3 9 12
Spleen 24136 1 5 6
Heart 22345 3 4 6
Tonsil 20252 2 2 2
Mixed 16058 3 3 3
Lymphatic 14753 1 2 2
Vessel 14572 1 1 1
Cell line 14510 1 1 1
Germinal 13979 2 4 4
Buccal 11489 1 2 4
Colon 10495 1 2 3
Intestine 9781 1 4 4
Tcell 9459 1 1 1
Vagina 8930 1 1 1
Bone 8262 1 1 1
Ovary 7577 1 2 2
Stomach 7427 1 2 2
Uterus 6170 1 2 2
Placenta 5707 1 1 1
Lung 4406 1 1 1
Adrenal 3765 1 1 2
Total 973929 75 246 (189 distinct) 310

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