Table 1 Control and glioma sequence outputs from AluScan

Total initial reads (bp)

896,661,780

1,065,234,324

Initial reads (bp) mapped to GRCh37.p2

836,745,196

983,798,813

Genomic regions mapped (bp) with coverage ≥ 1

58,876,070

64,297,421

Reads mapped (bp) with coverage ≥ 10

717,228,580

853,715,563

Genomic regions mapped with coverage ≥ 10:

   Total regions (bp)

10,638,683

11,846,868

   Average depth (x)

67.4

72.1

   Inter-Alu sequences mapped (bp)

10,149,445

11,275,690

   Genic sequences mapped (bp)

5,644,023

6,274,433

   Genic sequences mapped as % of total mapped regions

53.1%

53.0%

   Excess in genic sequences^a

13.1%

13.0%

   Number of genes with mapped region

8,502

9,205

   Number of cancer candidate genes^b with mapped region

2,921

3,096

Cancer candidate genes^b with mapped region as

% of genes with mapped region

34.4%

33.6%

   Excess in cancer candidate genes^c

8.4%

7.6%