Table 1

Nucleotide substitution rate. Nucleotide substitution rates for SNPs in promoter regions (P) and all SNPs genomewide (A) show roughly similar rates for transition and transversion substitution, with a slight increase in CG transversions as would be expected from CG rich regions.

Type
Substitution
Frequency (P)
Frequency (A)

Purine
A ↔ G
31.55%
33.10%
Pyrimidine
C ↔ T
30.99%
33.10%
Purine ↔ Pyrimidine
C ↔ G
12.75%
8.93%
Purine ↔ Pyrimidine
A ↔ C
9.43%
8.77%
Purine ↔ Pyrimidine
G ↔ T
9.33%
8.82%
Purine ↔ Pyrimidine
A ↔ T
5.94%
7.42%

Guo and Jamison BMC Genomics 2005 6:140   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-6-140