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Comparison of compactness between genes expressed at different levelsa |
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| Average intron length |
Total intron length |
Intron number |
CDS length |
UTR length |
Expression level |
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| Human genes |
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| Top 30% quantile |
2768 ± 608 |
28117 ± 7347 |
8 ± 1 |
1313 ± 90 |
775 ± 107 |
5369 ± 770 |
| Versus |
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| Bottom 30% quantile |
10448 ± 4237 |
901046 ± 33210 |
9 ± 1 |
1764 ± 232 |
1478 ± 244 |
267 ± 14 |
| P = 0.001 |
P = 0.019 |
P = 0.844 |
P = 0.273 |
0.019 |
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| Mouse genes |
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| Top 30% quantile |
2631 ± 290 |
16190 ± 1828 |
7 ± 1 |
1214 ± 65 |
779 ± 136 |
6219 ± 794 |
| versus |
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| bottom 30% quantile |
8032 ± 2706 |
37391 ± 4615 |
8 ± 1 |
1450 ± 128 |
1496 ± 190 |
365 ± 16 |
| P = 0.001 |
P = 0.001 |
P = 0.444 |
P = 0.589 |
P = 0.001 |
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a The human genes and the mouse genes are those analyzed in Figure 1. We used the Mann-Whitney U test to determine the significance of differences. For each case, we present the average value ± standard error of mean. | ||||||
Huang and Niu BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:154 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-154 |
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