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Table 4 Distance of introns to the 3' end of genes

From: Frequency of intron loss correlates with processed pseudogene abundance: a novel strategy to test the reverse transcriptase model of intron loss

 

Lost introns

Conserved introns

 
 

n

Mean ± SD (kb)

n

Mean ± SD (kb)

P a

Rats

86

1.11 ± 0.80

148,176

2.05 ± 1.99

8 × 10-9

Mice

45

2.66 ± 1.97

148,176

2.83 ± 3.14

0.414

  1. Only the length of exonic sequences was calculated. aMann-Whitney U test was used to calculate the values of P. kb: kilobase; SD: standard deviation.
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