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Table 5 Comparison between the results of our computational approach and seed regions of putative miRNAs listed in miRNAMap [45].

From: Identification of candidate regulatory sequences in mammalian 3' UTRs by statistical analysis of oligonucleotide distributions

Method

7-mers identified

7-mers corresponding to putative miRNAs

expected by chance

number of putative miRNAs

P-value

CO

465

76

26.7

101

6.7 · 10-17

SA

214

46

12.3

79

3.9 · 10-15

CSA

113

23

6.48

42

8.8 · 10-8

CO∩CSA

59

15

3.38

31

7.8 · 10-7

CO∪SA

601

98

34.4

135

1.8 · 10-21

  1. Same as Table 2 for putative miRNAs. The total number of 7-mers which are seed regions of putative miRNA is 939.
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BMC Bioinformatics

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