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Table 3 Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient between the vIP of the wild-type nucleotide motifs and their normalized SBS frequency in the different gene regions

From: Relation between DNA ionization potentials, single base substitutions and pathogenic variants

X

Doublets XN

Triplets NXN

Quadruplets NXNN

Quintuplets NNXNN

Sextuplets NNXNNN

Missense mutations in exons

All

-0.39

-0.39 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.05)}\)

-0.35 (<0.01)

-0.34 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-13})}\)

-0.31 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-51})}\)

G

-0.23

-0.54 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.05)}\)

-0.36 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.01)}\)

-0.32 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-6})}\)

-0.32 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-13})}\)

C

-0.81

-0.71 (<0.005)

-0.59 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-5})}\)

-0.54 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-14})}\)

-0.48 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-56})}\)

A

0.77

0.55 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.05)}\)

0.39 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.001)}\)

0.36 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-6})}\)

0.23 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-17})}\)

T

-0.06

0.18

-0.05

-0.03

-0.07

Synonymous mutations in exons

All

-0.48

-0.42 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.005)}\)

-0.39 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-8})}\)

-0.38 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-29})}\)

-0.34 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-109})}\)

G

-0.65

-0.67 (<0.005)

-0.50 (<0.00005)

-0.42 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-14})}\)

-0.33 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-32})}\)

C

-0.80

-0.68 (<0.05)

-0.54 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.005)}\)

-0.53 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-13})}\)

-0.50 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-50})}\)

A

-0.59

0.02

-0.09

0.00

-0.05

T

-0.87

0.00

-0.21

-0.17 (<0.05)

-0.13 (<0.0005)

Mutations in introns

All

-0.39

-0.42 (<0.005)

-0.38 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-5})}\)

-0.36 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-24})}\)

-0.33 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-78})}\)

G

-0.27

-0.51 (<0.05)

-0.36 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.05)}\)

-0.31 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-6})}\)

-0.23 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-11})}\)

C

-0.78

-0.70 (<0.05)

-0.61 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-7})}\)

-0.55 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-20})}\)

-0.54 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-83})}\)

A

0.80

0.67 (<0.05)

0.45 (<0.01)

0.22 (<0.005)

0.09 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-8})}\)

T

0.07

0.41

0.34 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.005)}\)

-0.09

-0.11

Mutations in UTRs

All

-0.43

-0.39 (<0.05)

-0.35 (<0.005)

-0.34 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-16})}\)

-0.32 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-57})}\)

G

-0.18

-0.47

-0.31 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.05)}\)

-0.25 (<0.01)

-0.16 (<0.0001)

C

-0.79

-0.71 (<0.05)

-0.60 (<0.0001)

-0.57 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-20})}\)

-0.53 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-67})}\)

A

0.60

0.64 (<0.01)

0.54 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<0.05)}\)

0.49 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-11})}\)

0.28 \(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{~}_{(<10^{-15})}\)

T

-0.13

0.33

-0.02

0.00

-0.04

  1. X indicates the position of the mutated nucleobase and N any base. The correlation coefficients that are statistically significant and for which the null hypothesis is rejected are underlined, with the P-values below α=0.05 reported in parentheses. Note that the increase in sample size, from doublet to sextuplet motifs, also contributes to the increase of the statistical significance of the correlation