Figure 8. Most of the Sequences Flanking the 1,234 ER Binding Sites Are Not Conserved through Evolution.
Measure of species conservation at all 1,234 ER binding sites from the center of the ChIP-PET cluster is depicted in the blue line. The green line measures species conservation of randomly selected fragments. The red line depicts the degree of conservation in 22% (273/1,234) of the binding sites bearing conserved elements, and the yellow line shows the degree of species conservation of the remaining 78% (961/1,234) of the binding sites that harbor no conserved elements. These results show that most of the conservation signal is driven by a minority of the binding sites. Conservation was measured by base-by-base comparisons.
