Local Definition of Ty1 Target Preference by Long Terminal Repeats and Clustered tRNA Genes

Table 2.

Quantitative Analysis of Insertion Events Occurring Into Specific Areas Upstream of tGly vs. tThr Genes



Bases upstream of tDNA

-65 to -127
-128 to 217
-218 to -300
-301 to -370
Within 350 bases
Within 650 bases
tGly (427 total) 138 128 67 48 377 420
tThr (392 total) 40 140 59 48 275 366
χ2 test p-valuea 1.7 × 10-14 0.08 0.79 0.21 1.2 × 10-12 0.0004
Significant difference between tGly and tThr
yes
no
no
no
yes
yes
  • a Frequency of integration into each region upstream of tGly was compared to that of integration upstream of tThr. See Methods for details.

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  1. Genome Res. 14: 1232-1247

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