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Table 1 Editing frequency and average structure size for the various substructures.

From: Large-scale analysis of structural, sequence and thermodynamic characteristics of A-to-I RNA editing sites in human Alu repeats

substructure

count

E1 freq.

average size(E0)

average size(E1)

bulge

14941

0.031

5.74 ± 0.11

3.44 ± 0.11

hairpin

25318

0.032

8.98 ± 0.09

7.82 ± 0.37

helix

395255

0.044

12.47 ± 0.03

14.08 ± 0.16

interior

107112

0.091

5.61 ± 0.03

4.00 ± 0.05

junction

74788

0.024

23.56 ± 0.10

17.20 ± 0.49

strand

2763

0.020

13.38 ± 0.45

9.20 ± 1.74

  1. size is the number of nucleotides in the structure for bulge, hairpin, interior, junction and strand, and the length of the helix for helices. The table lists average sizes with 95% confidence intervals.
  2. "strand" here means an RNA strand which is not part of a loop (stand-alone strand).