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Table 1 Substitution rates in miRNA categories

From: Differences in molecular evolutionary rates among microRNAs in the human and chimpanzee genomes

 

Substitution rates

1,214 miRNA

 

miRNAs

Effective Length

Subs. Human

Subs. Chimp

miRNAs Human (sd)

miRNAs Chimp (sd)

Flank. Human (sd)

Flank. Chimpanzee (sd)

840 Primate specific miRNAs

Cluster

Clustered

67

5558

32

39

0.0058 (0.0014)

0.007 (0.0016)

0.0077 (0.0011)

0.0094 (0.0022)

Non-clustered

773

62048

341

394

0.0055 (0.0003)

0.0063 (0.0005)

0.0065 (0.0003)

0.007 (0.0006)

Copies

Multiple

73

6323

30

31

0.0047 (0.0009)

0.0049 (0.0008)

0.0092 (0.0013)

0.0075 (0.0015)

Single

767

61283

343

402

0.0056 (0.0003)

0.0066 (0.0005)

0.0064 (0.0003)

0.0072 (0.0006)

Localization

Intergenic

200

16539

97

109

0.0059 (0.0007)

0.0066 (0.0008)

0.0082 (0.0008)

0.0093 (0.0013)

Genic

516

40895

219

242

0.0054 (0.0004)

0.0059 (0.0004)

0.006 (0.0004)

0.006 (0.0006)

Exon

47

4031

23

19

0.0057 (0.0011)

0.0047 (0.0015)

0.0038 (0.0011)

0.0068 (0.0038)

intron

371

29243

160

180

0.0055 (0.0004)

0.0062 (0.0006)

0.0065 (0.0006)

0.0063 (0.0006)

374 conserved-beyond-primates mIRNAs

Cluster

Clustered

191

16615

26

40

0.0016 (0.0003)

0.0024 (0.0005)

0.0042 (0.0006)

0.0046 (0.0006)

Non-clustered

183

16264

21

35

0.0013 (0.0002)

0.0022 (0.0004)

0.0054 (0.0008)

0.0058 (0.0014)

Copies

Multiple

226

199676

29

44

0.0015 (0.0003)

0.0022 (0.0004)

0.0049 (0.0007)

0.0056 (0.0014)

Single

148

13203

18

31

0.0014 (0.0003)

0.0023 (0.0005)

0.0048 (0.0006)

0.0045 (0.0007)

Localization

Intergenic

142

12400

23

42

0.0019 (0.0004)

0.0034 (0.0007)

0.0052 (0.0008)

0.0053 (0.0008)

Genic

139

12415

15

21

0.0012 (0.0003)

0.0017 (0.0004)

0.0043 (0.0006)

0.0065 (0.0022)

Exon

7

639

0

0

0 (0)

0 (0)

0.0054 (0.0023)

0.0036 (0.0021)

Intron

110

9929

12

15

0.0012 (0.0003)

0.0015(0.0004)

0.0042 (0.0006)

0.0072 (0.0021)

Ancestral repeats

1479*100

119996

635.4

712.4

0.0053 (0.0002)

0.0059 (0.0003)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Cluster 14

40

3214

4

6

0.0012 (0.0006)

0.0019 (0.0014)

0.0032 (0.0013)

0.0054 (0.0015)

Cluster 19

28

2417

4

7

0.0017 (0.0007)

0.0029 (0.0011)

0.0103 (0.0021)

0.0085 (0.0026)

  1. Effective length; effectively analysed sequence in base pairs (i.e. Neither gaps nor INDELs); Chimp, chimpanzee; Subs., substitutions in the indicated lineage; sd, standard deviations of substitution rates from 100 bootstraps for miRNAs and flanking regions (Flank.)