Table 1 Number of novel and tissue-specific antisense transcripts
From: Conserved expression of natural antisense transcripts in mammals
| Â | Human | Mouse | Rat |
|---|---|---|---|
Total number of probesets supported by RefSeq annotations (Core probesets) | 287,329 (100%) | 231,465 (100%) | 92,751 (100%) |
Antisense transcripts that are not found in RefSeq database | 278,827 (97.0%) | 226,996 (98.1%) | 91,648 (98.8%) |
Antisense transcripts that are not found in EST database | 140,496 (48.9%) | 162,379 (70.2%) | 66,943 (72.2%) |
Antisense transcripts that are not found in both RefSeq or EST databases | 139,918 (48.7%) | 161,865 (69.9%) | 66,865 (72.1%) |
Antisense transcripts that are expressed in at least one tissue and not found in RefSeq or EST databases (novel antisense transcripts) | 33,313 (11.6%) | 31,362 (13.5%) | 14,180 (15.3%) |
Tissue-specific transcripts | 14,485 (5.0%) | 12,673 (5.5%) | 11,358 (12.2%) |
Tissue-specific transcripts and not found in RefSeq or EST database (novel, tissue-specific transcripts) | 5,287 (1.8%) | 7,652 (3.3%) | 7,411 (8.0%) |
Antisense transcripts that are expressed in at least one tissue and not found in RefSeq database (This is used for expression divergence analysis, Figure 5) | 67,649 (23.5%) | 46,050 (19.9%) | 21,742 (23.4%) |