Table 2B.

Identified ATG deserts among human genes with mapped transcription start sites




ATG desert

Non-ATG desert
Non-TATA promoters 305 (94.4%) 18
TATA promoters
48 (81%)
11

[i] The same algorithm was applied to the set of human genes characterized by Suzuki et al. (2001) for their TSS for which alignments with rat and mouse genes were possible. P-value = 0.001289.