Detection and Visualization of Compositionally Similar cis-Regulatory Element Clusters in Orthologous and Coordinately Controlled Genes

Table 2.

Reduction of total cis-element search space for identification of conserved TF-binding site clusters by restriction to phylogenetically conserved sequence regions.

Gene Number of TF binding sites in genomic sequences Total number of TF binding sites of the two sequences (a) TF binding sites in common within BLASTZ aligned regions (b) % Reduction based on no. sharedcis-elements within BLASTZ -aligned sequence blocks (100—b/a%)
Human Mouse
ADA 2225 1740 3965 798 80
APEX 1850 1721 3571 458 87
XRCC1 2276 2209 4485 469 90
ERCC2 1806 1051 2857 299 90
CD4 2609 2609 5218 910 83
PAX6 29398 27321 56719 12444 78
ATM 12653 8753 21406 4093 81
MYO7A 7492 5146 12638 3116 75
  • Examples of genes in which cis-element matrix hits are reduced 75% to 90%.

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