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Table 1 Masked bp in total genome and IRB

From: Identical repeated backbone of the human genome

Type of element

Bp in total genome (a)

Bp in IRB (a)

LINE

602817717 (43.1)

15825138 (47.7)

SINE

391097725 (27.9)

7358371 (22.2)

LTR

253911472 (18.1)

5707753 (17.2)

RNA

1082672 (0.1)

39790 (0.1)

Satellite

11217284 (0.8)

1614833 (4.9)

DNA transposons

94488985 (6.8)

1237710 (3.7)

Low Complexity

40301995 (2.9)

962052 (2.9)

Unknown

4683496 (0.3)

454254 (1.4)

Total

1399601346 (100)

33199901 (100)

  1. a = % of masked sequence. A comparison of the ratios of the major repeated elements in the IRB and the reference human genome is shown in parenthesis.