Intronic Sequences Flanking Alternatively Spliced Exons Are Conserved Between Human and Mouse

Table 1.

Percent Intronic Conservation as a Function of the Distance From the Splice Sitea



Upstream introns

Downstream introns
Distance from splice site (bp)
Constitutively spliced
Alternatively spliced
Constitutively spliced
Alternatively spliced
1-6b 81.6 93.3 87.4 95.1
7-30 63.1 86.7 55.1 75.9
31-60 54.9 76.0 52.0 70.1
61-90
50.5
65.8
49.0
65.6
  • a Shown are the average identity levels in windows of 30 bases

  • b Conservation for the nucleotides that define the splice site (intronic bases 1-6) was calculated separately

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  1. Genome Res. 13: 1631-1637

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