Table 1.

Frequency of the major classes of interspersed repeated elements (in term of percent of the sequence length) in the autosomes, the X chromosome, in the Xic region taken as a whole and in introns of genes located in the Xic region

Length (kb analyzed) LINE (%) SINE (%) LTR (%) DNA (%) Total (%)
MouseAutosomes[i] 223,05710.59.46.90.527.4
X chromosome[i] 10,00016.29.16.50.732.6
Xic region71414.514.58.50.337.9
Xistintrons90.010.20.00.010.2
Other introns[iii] 19017.213.23.10.433.9
HumanAutosomes[ii] 348,84517.014.36.82.440.6
X chromosome[ii] 56,66730.29.69.02.551.2
XIC region230038.98.48.61.357.2
XIST introns188.28.90.51.018.6
Other introns[iii] 35247.57.89.02.066.3
BovineXIC region23346.59.31.30.857.9
XIST introns1717.85.80.60.024.2

[i] Sequences extracted from GenBank release 124 (June 2001).

[ii] Data from Bailey et al. (2000).

[iii] Introns of protein-coding genes located in Xic region.