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. 2008 Dec 18;9:614. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-614

Table 3.

Nesting of repeats in human chromosomes Y and 2

no. of elementsa % chromosomeb % nestedc insertions/Kbd
Y 2 Y 2 Y 2 Y 2
SINE 10068 119383 10% 12% 46% 51% 0.48 0.63

LINE 6207 65661 25% 21% 32% 39% 0.81 1.66

LTR 5200 38395 18% 8% 43% 52% 0.57 0.68

satellite 2144 222 5% 0% 4% 37% 0.05 0.18

DNA 1464 26886 2% 3% 35% 46% 1.12 0.88

RNA 55 778 0% 0% 54% 56% 0.36 0.26

repeats total 25157 251667 59% 45% 38% 48% 0.65 1.19

non-repetitive - - 41% 55% - - 1.33 1.00

aNumber of repetitive elements (models) in each group. bPercentage of available (cytologically euchromatic) chromosome sequence. cPercentage of elements in each group that are inserted into any other repetitive element. dDensity of repetitive element insertions (of any kind) per kilo base pairs of sequence within each group. Non-repetitive sequence here means that similarity to known families of high complexity repeats was not detected, but it includes low-complexity repeats. Excludes satellite repeats arrayed in tandem. (Satellites considered are high-complexity repeats).