Table 2 Distribution of poly (dA.dT) repeats of various lengths in the 5' upstream regions of housekeeping and tissue specific genes.
Poly (dA.dT) stretch (bp) | No. of repeat stretches in the two classes | No. of genes with repeats in 5' region (%) | Â | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Hkg # | Tsg* | Hkg # | Tsg* | § P -value |
>10 | 443 | 345 | 268 (51.0) | 240 (43.0) | 1.31E-04 |
>11 | 381 | 297 | 243 (46.3) | 214 (38.4) | 3.25E-04 |
>12 | 339 | 248 | 226 (43.1) | 184 (33.0) | 6.10E-05 |
>13 | 295 | 207 | 209 (39.8) | 156 (28.0) | 4.29E-05 |
>14 | 251 | 168 | 188 (35.8) | 128 (22.9) | 2.77E-05 |
>15 | 209 | 140 | 164 (31.2) | 111 (19.9) | 8.83E-05 |
>16 | 180 | 116 | 146 (27.8) | 99 (17.7) | 7.58E-05 |
>17 | 155 | 103 | 134 (25.5) | 88 (15.8) | 2.42E-04 |
>18 | 138 | 79 | 120 (22.9) | 71 (12.7) | 2.23E-05 |
>19 | 112 | 66 | 101 (19.2) | 59 (10.6) | 2.61E-04 |
>20 | 100 | 58 | 92 (17.5) | 53 (9.5) | 5.32E-04 |