Characterization of the mouse Dazap1 gene encoding an RNA-binding protein that interacts with infertility factors DAZ and DAZL

Table 1 Exon-intron Organization of the Mouse and Human DAZAP1 genes

Exon	Exon Size (bp)		Intron insertion sites^a		Intron size (kb)
	Mouse	Human	Mouse	Human	Mouse	Human
1	>82	>137	82	137	?	9.70
2	41	41	123	178	0.40	0.66
3	167	167	290	345	0.19	0.30
4	66	66	356	411	2.7	2.42
5	108	111	464	522	0.7	1.09
6	49	49	513	571	2.6	3.44
7	83	83	596	654	2.1	2.88
8	154	154	750	808	1.2	0.97
9	30	30	780	838	0.28	0.22
10	141	141	921	979	0.95	2.15
11	177	177	1098	1156	2.2	2.0
12	535	564

a: Introns are inserted after the indicated nucleotide positions of DAZAP1 cDNA sequences. GenBank accession numbers for mouse and human cDNAs are AF225910 and AF181719, respectively.

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