Table 1.
Conserved words within aligned ancestral repeats
| Repeat class | Human copies* | Human bases* | Perfectly conserved words of size ≥50 |
Perfectly conserved words of size ≥30 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Per Mb | No. | Per Mb | |||
| MER121 | 909 | 170,592 | 26 | 152.4 | 140 | 820.7 |
| MER51-int | 115 | 47,135 | 1 | 21.2 | 1 | 21.2 |
| L3b | 7,689 | 1,059,580 | 7 | 6.6 | 58 | 54.7 |
| MER34B-int | 472 | 187,485 | 1 | 5.3 | 13 | 69.3 |
| Tigger8 | 845 | 201,639 | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 5.0 |
| L3 | 47,395 | 9,355,520 | 30 | 3.2 | 164 | 17.5 |
| Charlie10 | 2,229 | 425,094 | 1 | 2.4 | 2 | 4.7 |
| MIRm | 32,045 | 2,854,339 | 5 | 1.8 | 25 | 8.8 |
| MARNA | 3,288 | 593,280 | 1 | 1.7 | 7 | 11.8 |
| MER103 | 6,834 | 768,897 | 1 | 1.3 | 3 | 3.9 |
| MER113 | 4,516 | 841,553 | 1 | 1.2 | 4 | 4.8 |
| MER102b | 3,975 | 843,979 | 1 | 1.2 | 2 | 2.4 |
| Charlie7 | 4,760 | 1,160,703 | 1 | 0.9 | 8 | 6.9 |
| Charlie8 | 7,617 | 1,231,496 | 1 | 0.8 | 4 | 3.2 |
| L1ME4a | 41,425 | 9,003,449 | 7 | 0.8 | 42 | 4.7 |
| L1MCa | 7,400 | 3,494,602 | 1 | 0.3 | 4 | 1.1 |
| MIRb | 279,852 | 40,575,849 | 10 | 0.2 | 91 | 2.2 |
| L1MC4 | 31,172 | 9,801,466 | 2 | 0.2 | 9 | 0.9 |
| MIR | 204,382 | 30,426,367 | 4 | 0.1 | 62 | 2.0 |
| L2 | 408,189 | 92,131,740 | 11 | 0.1 | 112 | 1.2 |
| MIR3 | 71,855 | 8,730,512 | 1 | 0.1 | 26 | 3.0 |
| L1MC4a | 30,167 | 9,732,206 | 1 | 0.1 | 4 | 1.1 |
*We count only instances on autosomes and chromosome X, not on chromosome Y or unplaced human contigs.