Table 3.

Distribution of structural and functional classes for chimeras found in both normal and in cancer tissue samples

	inter-genic	gene-desert-I	gene-desert-II	Total
fusion-protein	23	NA	NA	23
3′ truncated-protein	53	4	NA	57
5′ UTR-change	6	0	NA	6
3′ UTR-change	52	0	NA	52
cryptic splice-site	33	15	NA	48
novel RNA	79	4	0	83
Total	246	23	0	269