The Insertional History of an Active Family of L1 Retrotransposons in Humans

Table 2.

Genomic Environment of Ta-1, L1PA2, and L1PA5 Elements

	Ta-1
Genomic features^a	Polymorphic	Fixed	Total	L1PA2	L1PA5	Genomic average
% GC (20 kb)	39.00	38.89	38.96	38.62	38.64	41.00^b
% SINEs (100 kb)	9.27	8.85	9.21	8.26	9.30	13.14^b
% LINEs (100 kb)	22.35	23.20	23.12	23.59	21.97	20.42^b
% LTR-retrotransposons (100 kb)	8.36	8.29	8.44	8.61	8.66	8.29^b
% Repeats (100 kb)	42.84	43.27	43.50	43.26	42.60	44.83^b
Local recombination rate	1.05	1.12	1.07	1.05	1.08	1.28^c
Gene density (5 Mb)	18.83	21.16	19.49	17.74	19.02	24.45^d

↵a Numbers in parentheses indicate the window size analyzed.
↵b IHGSC (2001).
↵c Deduced from Web table E of Kong et al. (2002).
↵d Calculated from RefSeq genes table at http://genome.ucsc.edu/.

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Published in Advance June 14, 2004, doi: 10.1101/gr.2326704 Genome Res. 2004. 14: 1221-1231

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