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Table 9.

Mean number of splice variants in genes with different patterns of TISs

	sAUG		dAUG		Correlation with dAUG conservation (Spearman’s R)
	Optimal	Suboptimal	Absent	Present	Correlation with dAUG conservation (Spearman’s R)
H. sapiens	2.95	2.86	2.95	2.92	0.07*
D. melanogaster	1.53	1.59*	1.52	1.76**	0.11***

Asterisks denote significance of difference between genes with optimal or suboptimal context of sAUG (Mann–Whitney U-test), between genes with dAUG present or absent among codons 2–5 (Mann–Whitney U-test), and significance of Spearman’s correlation: ***P < 0.001; **P < 0.01; *P < 0.05.