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Table 2 Intragenic miRNA precursors in human, mouse, cow and goat

From: Annotation of the goat genome using next generation sequencing of microRNA expressed by the lactating mammary gland: comparison of three approaches

 

Human

Mouse

Cow

Goat

Known miRNA genes

1,881

1,193

808

924

Within protein-coding genes

1,018

694

285

263

% of known miRNA

54%

58%

35%

28%

  1. Human, mouse and cattle precursors were downloaded from miRBase v21, and protein-coding gene locations were downloaded from BioMartEnsembl (http://www.ensembl.org/biomart). The locations of goat mRNA were obtained from Dong et al. [18].