Table 3.

Alternative splicing events. The numbers of total alternative splicing events as well as of the individual alternative splicing events detected for each rat group are shown (‘Events’). In addition, the number of genes whose transcripts underwent alternative splicing is given (‘Genes’).

	Control		Novel		Familiar
	Events	Genes	Events	Genes	Events	Genes
Alternative donor	374	122	393	138	453	132
Alternative acceptor	432	156	435	184	505	186
Exon skipping	578	365	677	401	718	392
Intron retention	138	132	184	178	189	179
Total	1522	645	1689	738	1865	724