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. 2012 Sep 5;13(9):R48. doi: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-9-r48

Table 1.

Total sizes of the six types of genomic regions derived from transcription factor binding data in the five cell lines

Region type GM12878 H1-hESC HeLa-S3 Hep-G2 K562
Binding active regions (BARs) 109 Mbp (3.5%) 78.8 Mbp (2.6%) 93.6 Mbp (3.0%) 88.8 Mbp (2.9%) 98.7 Mbp (3.2%)
Binding inactive regions (BIRs) 1,390 Mbp (45%) 1,200 Mbp (39%) 1,330 Mbp (43%) 401 Mbp (13%) 1,010 Mbp (33%)
Promoter-proximal regulatory modules (PRMs) 25.4 Mbp (0.82%) 15.5 Mbp (0.50%) 20.7 Mbp (0.67%) 17.1 Mbp (0.55%) 24.3 Mbp (0.79%)
Gene-distal regulatory modules (DRMs) 24.6 Mbp (0.80%) 18.2 Mbp (0.59%) 25.3 Mbp (0.82%) 21.1 Mbp (0.68%) 22.0 Mbp (0.71%)
High occupancy of TF (HOT) regions (whole genome) 25.9 Mbp (0.84%) 26.4 Mbp (0.86%) 25.6 Mbp (0.83%) 26.3 Mbp (0.85%) 26.6 Mbp (0.86%)
High occupancy of TF (HOT) regions (intergenic regions only) 5.82 Mbp (0.19%) 6.43 Mbp (0.21%) 6.70 Mbp (0.22%) 6.74 Mbp (0.22%) 5.18 Mbp (0.17%)
Low occupancy of TF (LOT) regions (whole genome) 24.7 Mbp (0.80%) 23.5 Mbp (0.76%) 22.8 Mbp (0.74%) 23.8 Mbp (0.77%) 24.2 Mbp (0.78%)
Low occupancy of TF (LOT) regions (intergenic regions only) 10.7 Mbp (0.35%) 11.0 Mbp (0.36%) 10.1 Mbp (0.33%) 10.7 Mbp (0.35%) 12.4 Mbp (0.40%)

Numbers in parentheses are the percentages of the whole human genome covered by the regions. Intergenic regions are defined as regions at least 10 kbp from any level 1 or level 2 gene defined in Gencode version 7.