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. 2009 Mar 27;10:133. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-133

Table 3.

Percentage of repeated base pairs within IHRs.

IHR1 IHR2

Observed Expected Observed Expected
Percentage of IHRs containing repeat (%) 43 (0.001) 74 97 (0.948) 94

Average percentage of repeated base pairs (%) SINE 4.26 (0.001) 16.76 11.00 (0.001) 13.51
LINE 2.37 (0.001) 26.63 13.42 (0.001) 20.96
LTR 0.60 (0.001) 10.81 4.67 (0.001) 8.53
Low_complexity 4.86 (1) 0.73 0.72 (0.984) 0.58
scRNA 0 (0.001) 0.005 0.006 (0.783) 0.004
DNA 0.75 (0.001) 3.88 2.78 (0.146) 3.06
RNA 0.03 (0.967) 0.005 0.001 (0.404) 0.005
srpRNA 0 (0.001) 0.008 0.0008 (0.110) 0.008
snRNA 0 (0.001) 0.02 0.01 (0.716) 0.01
tRNA 0 (0.001) 0.003 0.0009(0.219) 0.003
rRNA 0 (0.001) 0.007 0.005(0.635) 0.006
Simple_repeat 1.04 (0.476) 1.17 1.02 (0.828) 0.92
Satellite 0 (0.001) 0.49 0 (0.001) 0.36

Randomly selected human genomic regions were used to test the significance, the fraction of times in which the random sample set scored lower average scores than those of the IHRs provided the basis for the statistical significance. p value was given in the bracket.