Table 1.
Characteristic features of gene deserts, gene-rich regions, regular intergenic regions, and the average in the human genome, NCBI Build 34
|
Region |
Length (Mb) |
G+C content |
Chicken conservationa |
Mouse conservationa |
Repeat content |
Density of SNPs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene deserts | 716 | 37.5% | 1.91% | 19.0% | 50.5% | 0.73/kb |
| Stable gene deserts | 207 | 38.3% | 4.28% | 25.6% | 46.9% | 0.69/kb |
| Variable gene deserts | 509 | 37.1% | 0.85% | 16.1% | 52.0% | 0.74/kb |
| Regular intergenic | 244 | 44.7% | 1.27% | 17.4% | 55.4% | 0.60/kb |
| Gene-rich | 285 | 47.4% | 4.35% | 28.0% | 48.9% | 0.57/kb |
| Average
|
2842
|
40.9%
|
2.98%
|
22.4%
|
48.5%
|
0.66/kb
|
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Repeat content and SNP annotation were derived from the tabular genome annotation obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser utility.
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↵a Interspecies conservation describes the percentage of nonrepetitive sequence covered by the ECRs
