Comparative Sequence Analysis of a Gene-Rich Cluster at Human Chromosome 12p13 and its Syntenic Region in Mouse Chromosome 6

Table 4.

Distribution of Repetitive Elements

Number of elements/ [percentage of sequence (human)] Number of elements in aligned regions (human) Number of elements/ [percentage of sequence (mouse)] Number of elements in aligned regions (mouse)
Alu 183 (21.77) 55
B1 156 (18.32) 69
B2 85 (8.25) 32
B4 36 (6.51) 18
ID 30 (2.32) 16
MIR 29 (1.86) 18 8 (0.34) 8
LINE1 9 (2.15) 2 9 (0.85%) 3
LINE2 14 (1.52) 5 5 (0.21) 3
MaLR 2 (0.39) 0 24 (1.61) 7
Retroviruses 2 (0.9) 0 4 (0.36) 2
MER4_group 1 (0.2) 0 0  0
MER1 type 6 (0.37) 3 3 (0.18) 2
MER2 type 5 (0.23) 2 3 (0.27) 2
Small RNA 2 (0.04) 1 7 (0.22) 6
Simple repeats 62 (2.44) 38 107 (3.35) 64
  • The distribution of human and mouse sequences between the first exon of CD4 and the penultimate exon of C6 (columns 1 and 3), and the four unmasked aligned fragments (columns 2 and 4) were determined by RepeatMasker (“.tbl” output), with slight modifications.

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