Table 2.

Characterization of the Insertion Motif of HERV-W Copies

	(a) HERV-W retro copies								(b) HERV-W pseudogene poly(A) copies
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
All	82	82	82	82	82	82	82	82	116	116	116	116	116	116	116	116
A	40	10	23	34	14	41	6	2	54	49	30	72	73	77	71	67
C	16	27	31	20	13	1	17	9	7	11	21	9	7	6	9	10
G	15	6	26	20	8	20	30	6	11	14	16	16	15	14	19	12
T	11	39	2	8	47	20	29	65	43	41	49	19	21	19	17	27
N									1	1
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Others

The highest nucleotide frequencies defining the consensus insertion site motif are in italics.