Table 1:

Measurements of uracil in DNA across tissue type.

Cell type	Uracil per genome	Reference
E. coli	<5	Lari et al (20)
S. cerevisiae	300 -1200	Owiti et al (21)
Rat colon epithelium	36,000	Choi et al (22)
Rat fetal liver	27,000 – 45,000	Tian et al (12)
Rat fetal brain	87,000 – 153,000	Tian et al (12)
Mouse liver	1600 – 4000	Marcfarlane et al (13) Martiniova et al (23)
Human whole blood	90,000 - 400,000	Blount et al (18)
Human bone marrow	240,000	Blount et al (18)
HeLa	10,000 - 18,000	Martiniova et al (23)