Table 2.

The GC Content (%) Estimated From the Intergenic Regions Extracted From the Human X-Chromosome

Entire sequence
CpG, TpG, GpA dinucleotides excluded
Repeats included
Repeats excluded
Repeats included
Repeats excluded
Entire X 38.94 37.68 33.04 31.68
PAR1 46.51 46.64 41.86 42.23
PAR2 38.91 37.83 33.13 32.00
Non-PAR
38.86
37.57
32.95
31.55

[i] Both known and annotated genes (from GenScan) are excluded, and the proportions of G and C nucleotides are counted.