Table 2.
Characteristics of the six defined flanking regions including 117 genes
| Region |
Size (kb) |
Genes included |
%AT average |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flanking peak | Relative location | Interval | Totala | Interval (spr number) | Total Numberb | In all region | Into genesc (P-valued) | ||
| 1 | Upstream 4 | 216.0 | 226.8 | 10.8 | 223 | 234 | 12 | 66.0 | 65.6 (2E-5) |
| 2 | Downstream 4 | 273.8 | 284.9 | 11.1 | 274 | 284 | 11 | 66.2 | 66.6 (1E-6) |
| 3 | Downstream 7 | 919.6 | 955.5 | 35.8 | 933 | 972 | 40 | 68.4 | 68.0 (4E-28) |
| 4 | Intercluster 9/10 | 1184.3 | 1207.2 | 22.9 | 1188 | 1210 | 23 | 67.3 | 66.1 (1E-10) |
| 5 | Upstream 10 | 1273.8 | 1289.6 | 15.8 | 1278 | 1293 | 16 | 67.9 | 66.9 (1E-9) |
| 6 | Upstream 14 | 1610.9 | 1626.3 | 15.4 | 1638 | 1653 | 15 | 67.5 | 67.9 (5E-11) |
aAverage size was 18.6 kb.
bAverage amount of genes was 19.5.
cData averaged by gene. %AT content into gene coding sequences was 66.9%.
dSignificance of altered AT-content of genes estimated by unpaired t-test between genes in the flanking region and the whole genome.