Table 3.

Analysis of Repetitive Elements in Dystrophin Intron Sequences

Organism Total intron length (kb) Repeat %
simple species-specific mammalian matching total
C. elegans 205.4410.6216.06
D. melanogaster 1202.310.232.54
F. rubripes 1541.871.653.52
M. musculus 2,2452.3726.466.940.2736.04
H. sapiens 2,1441.0425.4110.590.3937.43

[i] Simple, simple repeats and low complexity DNA; species-specific, repeated elements specific for either the human or mouse genome; mammalian, mammalian-wide repeated elements; matching, mammalian-wide intersepersed repeats matching in global human–mouse genomic alignments.