Relating gene expression evolution with CpG content changes

BMC Genomics

Table 1 The normalized CpG contents of high CpG and low CpG promoters in nine organisms

	#Transcript	Threshold	#LCP	#HCP	LCP		HCP
					Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Human	134229	0.425	74761	59468	0.120	0.083	0.631	0.242
Chimpanzee	38878	0.414	19074	19804	0.152	0.081	0.654	0.241
Gorilla	34736	0.451	21260	13476	0.166	0.090	0.660	0.249
Orangutan	28057	0.441	16757	11300	0.136	0.086	0.650	0.246
Macaque	41617	0.444	24848	16769	0.141	0.085	0.646	0.259
Mouse	82775	0.411	49293	33482	0.120	0.089	0.588	0.230
Opossum	34709	0.361	25253	9456	0.123	0.082	0.524	0.151
Platypus	20972	na	na	na	na	na	na	na
Chicken	21561	0.437	10840	10721	0.231	0.087	0.720	0.253

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