Identification and Analysis of Over 2000 Ribosomal Protein Pseudogenes in the Human Genome

Table 4.

Distributions of Processed Pseudogenes Among RP Genes

Gene name SWISSPROT ID mRNA length CDS length CDS GC content # Processed # Fragments
RPL21 RL21_HUMAN 568 483 0.43 145 13
RPL23A RL2B_HUMAN 546 471 0.49 85 11
RPL7 RL7_HUMAN 838 747 0.43 83 19
RPL7A RL7A_HUMAN 890 801 0.54 73 13
RPL31 RL31_HUMAN 442 378 0.47 71 5
RPSA RSP4_HUMAN 1039 888 0.53 67 12
RPS26 RS26_HUMAN 459 348 0.53 65 5
RPS3A RS3A_HUMAN 921 795 0.43 60 15
RPL17 RL17_HUMAN 898 555 0.46 59 11
RPS2 RS2_HUMAN 978 882 0.58 57 10
RPL39 RL39_HUMAN 401 156 0.42 56 8
RPL36A RL44_HUMAN 425 321 0.47 54 6
RPL12A RL12_HUMAN 632 498 0.52 49 3
RPL34 RL34_HUMAN 849 354 0.45 44 3
RPS15A RS1A_HUMAN 541 393 0.47 43 4
RPL29 RL29_HUMAN 737 480 0.56 40 3
RPL26 RL26_HUMAN 525 438 0.45 39 3
RPS27 RS27_HUMAN 344 255 0.49 38 0
RPL5 RL5_HUMAN 1033 894 0.44 37 8
RPS20 RS20_HUMAN 539 360 0.45 36 0
RPL35A R35A_HUMAN 511 333 0.47 36 2
RPL32 RL32_HUMAN 521 408 0.51 36 7
RPS29 RS29_HUMAN 346 171 0.53 36 2
RPS12 RS12_HUMAN 534 399 0.46 33 8
RPS10 RS10_HUMAN 598 498 0.55 33 4
RPL9 RL9_HUMAN 716 579 0.44 31 6
RPS24 RS24_HUMAN 537 402 0.44 30 13
RPL6 RL6_HUMAN 950 867 0.47 30 5
RPS6 RS6_HUMAN 829 750 0.47 27 1
RPL37 RL37_HUMAN 371 294 0.51 27 3
RPL13A R13A_HUMAN 1142 612 0.58 26 3
RPS27A R27A_HUMAN 551 471 0.44 24 1
RPL36 RL36_HUMAN 428 318 0.6 24 2
RPS4 RS4_HUMAN 916 792 0.48 23 5
RPL22 RL22_HUMAN 574 387 0.44 22 1
RPL19 RL19_HUMAN 698 591 0.54 22 4
RPL15 RL15_HUMAN 2018 615 0.54 21 5
RPS7 RS7_HUMAN 729 585 0.48 18 5
RPS17 RS17_HUMAN 515 408 0.51 18 3
RPP1 RLA1_HUMAN 512 345 0.54 17 3
RPL18A RL1X_HUMAN 618 531 0.6 17 7
RPL30 RL30_HUMAN 524 348 0.45 16 1
RPS16 RS16_HUMAN 570 441 0.57 16 1
RPL10A R10A_HUMAN 700 654 0.51 14 4
RPL10 RL10_HUMAN 2188 645 0.55 14 32
RPL18 RL18_HUMAN 648 567 0.59 14 1
RPS18 RS18_HUMAN 549 459 0.56 13 3
RPL13 RL13_HUMAN 1110 636 0.62 13 1
RPL23 RL23_HUMAN 493 423 0.49 11 1
RPL27 RL27_HUMAN 513 411 0.49 11 4
RPS8 RS8_HUMAN 705 627 0.52 11 3
RPP0 RLA0_HUMAN 1116 954 0.54 11 4
RPS28 RS28_HUMAN 398 210 0.62 11 2
RPS5 RS5_HUMAN 725 615 0.58 10 1
RPS15 RS15_HUMAN 515 438 0.63 10 1
RPS23 RS23_HUMAN 506 432 0.45 9 1
RPS25 RS25_HUMAN 514 378 0.47 9 0
RPL37A R37A_HUMAN 392 279 0.52 9 1
RPL40 RL40_HUMAN 501 387 0.54 9 1
RPS21 RS21_HUMAN 356 252 0.54 9 0
RPL3 RL3_HUMAN 1311 1212 0.55 9 5
RPL35 RL35_HUMAN 455 372 0.57 9 2
RPS13 RS13_HUMAN 529 456 0.46 8 4
RPL24 RL24_HUMAN 556 474 0.48 8 9
RPS14 RS14_HUMAN 589 456 0.54 8 2
RPP2 RLA2_HUMAN 482 348 0.56 8 0
RPL38 RL38_HUMAN 368 213 0.46 7 4
RPS3 RS3_HUMAN 843 732 0.54 7 3
RPL4 RL4_HUMAN 1449 1284 0.49 6 5
RPS11 RS11_HUMAN 594 477 0.51 6 3
RPL27A RL2A_HUMAN 514 447 0.54 6 5
RPS19 RS19_HUMAN 569 438 0.58 6 0
RPL28 RL28_HUMAN 500 414 0.6 6 1
RPL41 RL41_HUMAN 478 78 0.5 5 0
RPL11 RL11_HUMAN 609 537 0.51 4 3
RPS30 RS30_HUMAN 574 402 0.59 4 1
RPS9 RS9_HUMAN 691 585 0.6 4 1
RPL8 RL8_HUMAN 894 774 0.61 4 3
RPL14 RL14_HUMAN 843 651 0.5 3 3
Total 685 511 0.51 26 4.5
Correlation −0.01 0.04 −0.41
p-value 0.93 0.73 0.0002

  • ↵The SWISSPROT ID (Bairoch and Apweiler 2000) for the human RP protein.

  • ↵The standard mammalian RP gene nomenclature.

  • ↵Number of nucleotides for RP mRNA.

  • ↵Number of nucleotides for RP coding sequence (CDS).

  • ↵GC content of the RP coding sequence.

  • ↵RPS27a, RPL40, and RPS30 are carboxyl extensions of ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like proteins.

  • ↵Correlation between number of processed pseudogenes and mRNA length.

  • ↵Correlation between number of processed pseudogenes and CDS length.

  • ↵Correlation between number of processed pseudogenes and CDS GC-content.

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