Table 1.

Interspersed Repeats in the Callipyge Imprinted Domain

Human (250,000 bp analyzed) Ovine (214,466 bp analyzed)
Family[i] No. of elements Percentage of sequence Family[i] No. of elements Percentage of sequence
SINEs13211.01%SINEs835.58%
 ALUs707.84% rum.spec.403.39%
 MIRs623.17% MIRs331.74%
LINEs5610.27%LINEs6310.30%
 LINE1227.96% LINE1346.76%
 LINE2312.06% LINE2171.25%
 L3/CR130.25% L3/CR120.24%
 BovB/Art2102.05%
LTR elements194.77%LTR elements131.70%
 MaLRs80.96% MaLRs50.36%
 ERVL73.26% ERVL51.08%
 ERV-Class I10.20% ERV-Class I20.11%
 ERV-Class II00.00% ERV-Class II00.00%
DNA elements131.46%DNA elements90.66%
 MER1 type100.70% MER1 type60.45%
 MER2 type20.68% MER2 type10.03%
Unclassified00%Unclassified10.04%
Total interspersed  repeats27.51%Total interspersed  repeats18.29%
Simple repeats441.04%Simple repeats330.91%
Low complexity310.84%Low complexity320.51%

[i] Repeats are labeled as defined in Smit (1999) and Smit and Green (2000).