Tandem Repeats in Protein Coding Regions of Primate Genes

Table 1.

The Relative Probabilities of Elongation/Shortening Events for the Runs of Codons That Code for the Respective Amino Acids

Ala(gcx) Gly(ggx) Pro(ccx) Gln(cax) Lys(aax)
pa 0.03 ± 0.02 0.10 ± 0.05 0.20 ± 0.10 0.10 ± 0.05 0.30 ± 0.10
pg 0.83 ± 0.10 0.05 ± 0.03 0.60 ± 0.10 0.90 ± 0.10 0.70 ± 0.10
pc 0.03 ± 0.02 0.75 ± 0.10 0.05 ± 0.03
pf 0.11 ± 0.05 0.10 ± 0.05 0.20 ± 0.10
L1/L0 0.0005 0.0008 0.0005 0.0008 0.0002
  • The codons are identified by their third base (pa of alanine refers to [gca] codon). In the bottom row the relative coverage of exons by the repeats are given. The estimated relative error of L1/L0 values is 50%.

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