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. 2005 Jan 10;102(3):713–718. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408274102

Table 2. The effect of adjacent intron phase on intron loss.

Percent introns retained
Adjacent intron phase
Same Different P
Diptera
   Ph0 5′ 14 (202) 23 (188) 0.99
3′ 23 (202) 16 (159) 0.08
   Ph1 5′ 31 (35) 13 (112) 0.01
3′ 43 (35) 27 (128) 0.06
   Ph2 5′ 25 (32) 31 (123) 0.81
3′ 23 (32) 32 (136) 0.46
   All 5′ 17 (269) 22 (423) 0.95
3′ 27 (269) 25 (423) 0.29
C. elegans
   Ph0 5′ 17 (139) 22 (127) 0.87
3′ 22 (139) 24 (106) 0.65
   Ph1 5′ 19 (26) 22 (69) 0.70
3′ 35 (26) 32 (81) 0.50
   Ph2 5′ 18 (22) 17 (83) 0.55
3′ 36 (22) 16 (92) 0.04
   All 5′ 18 (187) 20 (279) 0.92
3′ 26 (187) 24 (279) 0.35
H. sapiens
   Ph0 5′ 67 (24) 80 (35) 0.93
3′ 75 (24) 86 (21) 0.90
   Ph1 5′ 100 (8) 67 (9) 0.12
3′ 100 (8) 87 (23) 0.39
   Ph2 5′ 63 (8) 85 (20) 0.96
3′ 88 (8) 80 (20) 0.55
   All 5′ 73 (40) 80 (64) 0.86
3′ 83 (40) 84 (64) 0.72
S. pombe
   Ph0 5′ 4 (137) 9 (122) 0.96
3′ 9 (137) 10 (104) 0.60
   Ph1 5′ 9 (23) 11 (65) 0.74
3′ 4 (23) 21 (81) 0.99
   Ph2 5′ 5 (21) 12 (84) 0.93
3′ 5 (21) 23 (86) 0.99
   All 5′ 5 (181) 10 (271) 0.99
3′ 8 (181) 17 (271) 1.00

5′/3′, whether the effect of the upstream (5′) or downstream (3′) adjacent intron is being tested; same, adjacent intron is of the same phase; different, adjacent intron is of different phase. Sample sizes are given in parentheses. P values were calculated with a one-tailed Fisher's exact test.