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. 2007 Sep 4;8(9):R180. doi: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-9-r180

Table 2.

Indel density for annotation features (across all 44 ENCODE regions)

Indels Rate (number per 100 kb) Rate (bp per 100 kb)

n bp n 99% CI bp 99% CI Feature length (kb)
Manual 2,186 6,504 14.6 11.7 to 18.2 43.4 34.4 to 54.7 14,998
Random 2,300 6,506 15.3 13.6 to 17.3 43.4 37.5 to 50.2 15,000
Overall 4,486 13,010 15.0 13.4 to 16.7 43.4 38.3 to 49.1 29,998
RNA transcription
 CDS 5 5 0.7 0.1 to 8.6 0.7 0.1 to 8.6 675
 TSS 2 2 3.3 3.3 61
 RACEfrags 9 28 2.1 0.8 to 5.4 6.6 1.3 to 33.9 425
 TARs/transfrags 37 78 5.8 3.5 to 9.6 12.3 6.8 to 22.3 634
 Pseudo-exons 9 26 6.6 2.6 to 16.6 19.1 5.8 to 63.3 136
 3' UTR 48 103 11.0 7.2 to 16.7 23.6 13.5 to 41.3 436
 5' UTR 7 32 6.0 1.6 to 22.3 27.4 3.8 to 198.7 117
 TUF 53 160 12.2 7.8 to 19.2 36.9 20.2 to 67.6 433
Open chromatin
 FAIRE-sites 106 327 7.7 5.6 to 10.6 23.8 15.5 to 36.7 1,372
 DHS (NHGRI) 19 61 6.1 3.3 to 11.3 19.7 8.3 to 46.9 310
 DHS (Regulome) 43 135 8.6 5.3 to 14.0 27.0 13.4 to 54.4 499
DNA-protein intreraction/transcript regulation
 HisPolTAF 141 348 13.1 10.0 to 17.2 32.4 22.5 to 46.5 1,076
 Seq_specific (all motifs) 131 420 11.2 8.3 to 15.0 35.8 23.1 to 55.3 1,174
 SeqSp (sequence specific factors) 54 225 10.2 6.2 to 16.7 42.5 20.1 to 89.5 530
Ancestral repeats 532 1,592 7.9 6.7 to 9.2 26.5 21.7 to 32.5 5,998
Evolutionary constraint
 MCS strict 19 31 2.5 1.3 to 5.1 4.1 1.6 to 10.4 748
 MCS moderate 78 170 5.1 3.5 to 7.6 11.2 6.8 to 18.5 1,515
 MCS loose 356 960 9.8 8.2 to 11.7 26.4 20.9 to 33.4 3,637
Cell cycle
 EarlyRepSeg 1,124 2,989 16.4 13.8 to 19.4 43.5 33.3 to 56.9 6,868
 MidRepSeg 1,190 3,352 15.4 13.5 to 17.5 43.2 35.3 to 53.0 7,751
 LateRepSeg 1,110 3,345 13.9 12.1 to 15.9 41.9 32.9 to 53.3 7,991

bp, base pairs; CDS, coding sequence; CI, confidence interval; DHS, DNAse hypersensitive sites; ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements; FAIRE, formaldehyde assisted isolation of regulatory elements; kb, kilobases; MCS, multi-species conserved sequence; NHGRI, National Human Genome Research Institute; transfrag, transcribed fragment; RACEfrag, rapid amplification of cDNA ends fragment; TAR, transcriptionally active region; TSS, transcription start site; TUF, transcripts of unknown function; UTR, untranslated region.