Table 3.

Distribution of Repetitive Elements

Repeat Number of elements (% of human sequence) Number of elements (% of mouse sequence)
SINES
 Alu130 (4.68%)
 B1s61 (1.93%)
 B2–B486 (3.78%)
 ID8 (0.16%)
 MIRs67 (1.29%)9 (0.27%)
LINEs
 LINE1142 (12.90%)83 (16.35%)
 LINE278 (3.64%)17 (0.56%)
LTR elements
 MaLRs81 (5.09%)62 (4.80%)
 Retroviral30 (2.40%)19 (4.14%)
 MER4_group29 (2.69%)1 (0.06%)
DNA elements
 MER1_type32 (0.88%)9 (0.46%)
 MER2_type12 (0.94%)1 (0.05%)
 Mariners2 (0.04%)0.00
 Small RNA3 (0.03%)4 (0.07%)
 Simple Repeats141 (1.58%)86 (1.42%)
 Low complexity47 (0.50%)35 (0.60%)