Patterns of Insertions and Their Covariation With Substitutions in the Rat, Mouse, and Human Genomes

Table 1.

Composition of the August 2003 RepeatMasker Database by Lineage-Specific and Ancestral Repeats


Repeat class

Mammalian-wide

Primate-specific

Rodent-wide

Rat-specific

Mouse-specific
SINE 3 (1) 26 (7) 20 (3) 8 (1) 7 (1)
LINE 64 (102) 36 (55) 25 (52) 12 (23) 18 (28)
LTR 156 (241) 221 (475) 110 (140) 84 (182) 94 (154)
DNA
100 (105)
26 (25)
8 (4)
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-
  • Note: The number of repeat families in each class is given for each category of repeats (lineage-specific or ancestral), and the number of kilobase of family consensus sequence is given in parentheses. A few unclassified elements are left out.

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