Table 3.
Conservation of Two Classes of Promoter in Higher Vertebrates
| Proportion of Conserved HCP (%) |
Proportion of Conserved LCP (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human | Mouse | Rat | Cow | Dog | Chicken | Human | Mouse | Rat | Cow | Dog | Chicken | |
| Human | 7,139 | 97.6 | 97.4 | 96.9 | 88.8 | 85.7 | 2,895 | 86.7 | 87.3 | 79.5 | 89.8 | 42.1 |
| Mouse | 93.7 | 8,097 | 96.7 | 93.7 | 85.8 | 84.7 | 85.1 | 4,365 | 89.9 | 83.2 | 87.4 | 48.2 |
| Rat | 91.9 | 92.6 | 5,634 | 90.4 | 83.4 | 89.7 | 85.0 | 94.6 | 2,596 | 86.9 | 77.9 | 56.3 |
| Cow | 93.6 | 94.1 | 95.2 | 1,536 | 84.5 | 84.3 | 90.6 | 96.0 | 79.3 | 577 | 88.9 | 54.8 |
| Dog | 82.2 | 80.5 | 84.9 | 86.3 | 435 | 80.6 | 81.1 | 90.6 | 87.2 | 97.1 | 187 | 40.0 |
| Chicken | 89.6 | 87.0 | 89.7 | 84.4 | 82.5 | 913 | 47.3 | 53.6 | 51.6 | 53.7 | 33.3 | 251 |
Note.—The diagonal cells show the number of genes with HCP or LCP in each species. The upper and lower triangles show the percentage of genes in the column species also given the same classification for the row species.