Transposon-free regions in mammalian genomes

Table 2.

List of the 10 longest human TFRs


TFR ID

Genomic position

Length (bp)

P valuea

% G + C

% bases conservedb

Overlapping genes

% exonic bases
chr7.119 chr7:26938206 81208 <10-75 52 45 HOXA4-11 17
chr5.354 chr5:92928424 57661 <10-54 46 37 NR2F1 14
chr2.598 chr2:176777785 53918 <10-48 52 38 HOXD8-13 18
chr11.129 chr11:31759920 46909 <10-45 49 35 PAX6 5
chr17.162 chr17:43994277 46224 <10-41 52 42 HOXB4-6 19
chr13.226 chr13:99405192 43687 <10-42 52 43 ZIC2, ZIC5 12
chr5.305 chr5:87986303 40148 <10-33 44 35 MIRN9-2 0
chr2.316 chr2:104910522 39265 <10-39 49 34 POU3F3 4
chr15.252 chr15:94658960 37951 <10-37 48 53 NR2F2 8
chr7.319
chr7:96264636
37555
<10-34
49
37
DLX5
4
  • a Probability of finding one or more TFRs of this length in the subset of the genome with the same GC content (see Methods)

  • b Percent of bases that are covered by conserved regions described by Siepel et al. (2005)

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