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Table 5 Housekeeping genes

From: Patterns and rates of intron divergence between humans and chimpanzees

 

n

Variable

Mean

P

All introns

    

   Housekeeping

1129

Length

1513.4

 

   Others

50,544

Length

3257.7

< 0.001

   Housekeeping

1,129

GC

0.450

 

   Others

50,544

GC

0.435

< 0.001

   Housekeeping

1,129

Ki

0.984

 

   Others

50,544

Ki

1.018

0.037

Without housekeeping genes

    

   Short

25,116

Ki

0.975

 

   Large

25,428

Ki

1.061

< 0.001

   First

5,689

Length

7083.7

 

   Others

44,855

Length

2772.5

< 0.001

  1. Shown are the mean length, GC content and Ki for housekeeping genes versus other genes. Also shown are mean Ki and length for short versus large introns, and first versus other introns in all introns without housekeeping genes.