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

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