Table 4.

Conserved Sequences (CSs) between the Human DSCR and the Corresponding Mouse Region

Total No. of CSs No. of CSs matched with known exons[ii] No. of exons matched with CSs (out of 123 known exons)
50 bp
 75% ID1058 (113,607 bp)178 (31,159 bp)110
 80% ID674 (74,892 bp)161 (26,751 bp)109
 85% ID341 (39,592 bp)132 (19,574 bp)89
75 bp
 75% ID526 (88,088 bp)138 (30,983 bp)104
 80% ID353 (59,173 bp)123 (26,132 bp)95
 85% ID217 (35,794 bp)104 (19,529 bp)84
100 bp
 75% ID408 (86,136 bp)128 (32,762 bp)103
 80% ID254 (53,428 bp)110 (25,773 bp)90
 85% ID156 (31,809 bp)84 (18,624 bp)73

[i] Numbers in parentheses indicate total nucleotide length of CSs. The data was obtained from the analysis using the VISTA program.

[ii] One exon matched with more than two non-overlapping CSs.