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. 2013 Nov 5;1:e201. doi: 10.7717/peerj.201

Table 1. Amount of genes in cellular and exosomal RNA based on 90% coverage over protein-coding sequence of genes and exons of non-coding genes.

Note the large proportion of non-coding transcripts in exosomal RNA.

Transcript type MDA-MB-231
cellular
genes (%)
MDA-MB-231
exosomal
genes (%)
MDA-MB-436
exosomal
genes (%)
Protein-coding 90.8 50.4 47.6
Non-coding 9.2 49.6 52.4