Functionality or transcriptional noise? Evidence for selection within long noncoding RNAs

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Figure 2.

Density of indel-purified segments in macroRNA transcripts. Shown are the IPS densities within macroRNA transcripts (red line) for 10 G+C content bins (horizontal axis), and the expected density based on the intergenic distribution of IPSs (black line; the gray band indicates 95% confidence intervals obtained by randomization; see Methods for details). The IPS densities within macroRNAs exceed significantly the levels expected in G+C-matched intergenic sequence, indicating the past action of purifying selection.

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  1. Genome Res. 17: 556-565

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