Widespread RNA Editing of Embedded Alu Elements in the Human Transcriptome

Table 2.

Tissue Distribution of the Selected (n = 2674) Transcripts


Tissue

No. of libraries

No. of cDNAs

Edited cDNAs

Percentage (%)
Thymus 5 1234 158 12.80
Prostate 7 1232 101 8.20
Spleen 5 1440 113 7.85
Tongue 3 669 43 6.43
Mammary gland 4 789 45 5.70
Peripheral nervous system 3 322 18 5.59
Larynx 6 1287 69 5.36
Kidney 14 2866 146 5.09
Brain 52 18,649 854 4.58
Uterus 10 3316 142 4.28
Stomach 3 395 16 4.05
Other 13 1538 48 3.12
Eye 5 1963 53 2.70
Embryo 2 1421 37 2.60
Lymph node 6 1491 38 2.55
Small intestine 8 1801 45 2.50
Cervix 2 891 22 2.47
Lung 11 3301 53 1.61
Bone marrow 4 872 14 1.61
Colon 8 2217 35 1.58
Heart 8 866 13 1.50
Ovary 7 1189 16 1.35
Testis 10 9064 104 1.15
Bladder 3 479 5 1.04
Liver 6 2049 21 1.02
Placenta 12 4317 44 1.02
Mixed 5 1506 13 0.86
No information 52 37,377 275 0.74
Skin 10 2761 12 0.43
Blood 7 3134 11 0.35
Muscle 6 1979 6 0.30
Pancreas 4 752 2 0.27
Bone
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