Analysis of Human mRNAs With the Reference Genome Sequence Reveals Potential Errors, Polymorphisms, and RNA Editing

Table 4.

Ratio of Synonymous to Nonsynonymous Substitutions

Syn subs Nonsyn subs Total subs Ratio S/NS
All substitutions 13,465 15,494 28,961 0.87
SNP substitution 5998 4453 10,451 1.35
Non-SNP substitutions 7467 11,041 18,508 0.68
Both well-supported 1505 1183 2688 1.27
Support mRNA only 548 752 1300 0.73
Support genome only
3499
6215
9714
0.56
  • Ratios of synonymous to nonsynonymous substitutions detected by mRNA alignments to the human genome sequence are shown. Substitutions are classified into SNPs or non-SNPs based on inclusion in the dbSNP database. Well-supported substitutions imply that there are at least three additional transcript sequences supporting both the genome and mRNA sequence variants. For the last two cases in which only the mRNA or genome sequence variant is supported, we only require a single additional supporting transcript sequence.

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