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Table 2 Kimura model parameters

From: Comprehensive analysis of the pseudogenes of glycolytic enzymes in vertebrates: the anomalously high number of GAPDH pseudogenes highlights a recent burst of retrotrans-positional activity

  

Human

Mouse

Rat

Mouse-Rat Ancestor

Genes

α

7.15 × 10-4

4.90 × 10-4

7.28 × 10-4

8.02 × 10-4

 

β

2.75 × 10-4

1.17 × 10-4

1.81 × 10-4

3.77 × 10-4

Pseudogenes

α

1.84 × 10-3

1.20 × 10-3

1.94 × 10-3

2.06 × 10-3

 

β

5.22 × 10-4

4.14 × 10-4

3.83 × 10-4

6.24 × 10-4

  1. Rates of transition and transversion substitutions per million years, represented by α and β, respectively, in Kimura's two-parameter model of nucleotide substitution.
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BMC Genomics

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