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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Mutat. 2016 Apr 15;37(7):627–639. doi: 10.1002/humu.22973

Table 3.

Qualitative z-score ranges and probabilities of pathogenicity for potential damage to reference splice junctions

Qualitative Category MES z-score range Alpha 95% CI Number of
variants used
Prior
probability
Improved Score IMPROVED vs
reference sequence
0.00 (0.00, 0.08) 46 0.04
Minimal Donor: z > 0 0.00 (0.00, 0.08) 24 0.04
Acc: z > 0.5
Moderate Donor: −2 ≤ z ≤ 0 0.34 (0.15, 0.55) 66 0.34
Acc: −1.5 ≤ z ≤ 0.5
High Donor: z < −2 0.97 (0.82, 1.00) 94 0.97
Acc: z < −1.5