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. 2008 Nov 26;83(4):1920–1929. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00856-08

TABLE 1.

Distribution of restriction sites in the human genome

Site category % Distribution (P)a
MseI AvrII/NheI AvrII/NheI/SpeI Random
Within RefSeq genes 35.8 (<0.001) 36.5 (<0.001) 36.1 (<0.001) 34.3
Within ±5 kb of CpG islands 5.3 (<1.137E−20) 9.4 (<2.42E−09) 8.3 (NS) 7.8
Within ±5 kb of RefSeq TSS 4.6 (<3.44E-08) 6.7 (<0.0006) 5.9 (NS) 5.9
a

P values are compared to the random values. NS, not significantly different from random.