Table 2

Distribution of conserved and mixed positions of U12 and U2 introns in human and Arabidopsis orthologs.



Position


Type
Number of introns
5'
3'
P-valuea

Human U2/Arabidopsis U2
230
136
94
0.006734
Human U12/Arabidopsis U12
40
31
9
0.0006795
Human U12/Arabidopsis U2
30
9
21
0.04277
Human U2/Arabidopsis U12
10
6
4
0.7539

aCalculated using two-sided binomial test with prior probability 0.5 and the number of introns in the 5' half of a gene treated as the number of successes.

Basu et al. Biology Direct 2008 3:19   doi:10.1186/1745-6150-3-19