Table 1

GC vs. AT bias for polymorphisms and human lineage substitutions

AT to GC

GC to AT

Neither

Polymorphisms

0.105 (2)

0.684 (13)

0.211 (4)

Substitutions

0.841 (37)

0.091 (4)

0.068 (3)

These data were taken from a 5.5 kb region around element 2. Counts are in parentheses. Cases where the mutation was at a hypermutable CG dinucleotide were ommited.

Bush and Lahn BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:17   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-17