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. 2010 Jul 8;1:17. doi: 10.1186/1759-8753-1-17

Table 6.

Short target site duplications (TSDs) with or without allowing nucleotide substitutions

L1 Alu

Full Trun Inv Full Trun
5-bp TSD in relaxed criterion*/
5-bp TSD in strict criterion*
0/3
(0%)
36/56
(64%)
0/4
(0%)
13/51
(25%)
5/18
(28%)
6-bp TSD in relaxed criterion*/
6-bp TSD in strict criterion*
0/4
(0%)
51/64
(80%)
0/6
(0%)
14/69
(20%)
6/26
(23%)

*TSD in relaxed criterion allows 1-bp substitution sandwiched by ≥2-bp homologous nucleotides, but TSD in strict criterion does not.

Full, full-length; Trun, 5'-truncated; Inv, 5'-inverted.