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. 2010 Nov 18;20(3):580–588. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddq501

Table 2.

Repeat instability in cells with constitutive expression

% unstable allelesa Average change of repeat sizeb
Unidirectional transcription (forward) 40.5% 95
Unidirectional transcription (reverse) 23.0% 44
Bidirectional transcription 79.0%* 165

aA cut-off point of ±25 repeats was used for counting as unstable.

bAmong all alleles (stable + unstable), the average change of repeat size is expressed as the number of repeats.

*P < 0.001, Chi-square test.