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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroquantology. 2011 Dec;9(4):728–746. doi: 10.14704/nq.2011.9.4.499

Table 1.

The most used human codons per amino acid according to their hydrogen bonding (in bold). In parenthesis is the one letter code for each amino acid. An asterisk indicates the presence of the stop codons.

223 323 233 333 232 222 322 332
AUG (M) CAG (Q) UGG (W) GCC (A) UGA (*) UUU (F) CUU (L) CCU (P)
AAG (K) GAG (E) UGC (C) GGC (G) AGA (R) UUA (L) CUA (L) CCA (P)
UAC (Y) CAC (H) ACC (T) CCC (P) UCU (S) UAU (Y) CAU (H) CGU (R)
UUC (F) GAC (D) AGC (S) CCG (P) UCA (S) UAA (*) CAA (Q) CGA (R)
AAC (N) GUG (V) AGG (R) CGC (R) UGU (C) AUU (I) GUU (V) GCU (A)
AUC (I) CUG (L) UCC (S) CGG (R) ACU (T) AUA (I) GUA (V) GCA (A)
UUG (L) CUC (L) UCG (S) GCG (A) ACA (T) AAU (N) GAU (D) GGU (G)
UAG (*) GUC (V) ACG (T) GGG (G) AGU (S) AAA (K) GAA (E) GGA (G)