Large-Scale Comparative Sequence Analysis of the Human and Murine Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase Loci Reveals Conserved Regulatory Domains

Table 3.

Nonsynonymous and Synonymous Mutation Rates of the Five Loci in the BTK Region

Gene Nonsynonymous (×1010) Synonymous (×109)
Method 1
BTK 0.49 ± 0.15 2.22 ± 0.21
FCI-12 1.51 ± 0.68 2.42 ± 0.59
FTP-3 0.27 ± 0.13 1.53 ± 0.19
GLA 8.17 ± 0.81 2.58 ± 0.30
L44L 0.00 2.06 ± 0.48
Method 2
BTK 0.48 ± 0.14 2.53 ± 0.24
FCI-12 1.46 ± 0.66 2.82 ± 0.71
FTP-3 0.26 ± 0.13 1.66 ± 0.21
GLA 8.01 ± 0.79 2.76 ± 0.33
L44L 0.00 2.37 ± 0.59
  • Average substitution rate/nucleotide ± s.d.

  • Methods 1 and 2 differ only in their estimation of the α/β ratio, a measurement of transitional and transversional substitution rates (see Ina 1995).

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