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Table 5 Association of Interspersed Repetitive Elements with Selected STR Types.

From: STRP Screening Sets for the human genome at 5 cM density

 

Number of STRPs Associated with Indicated Repeats (Fraction STRPs)

Repeat

Total STRPs

AAAT

AAGG

AAT

AATG

AGAT

Other

ALU

189 (0.24)

31 (0.89)

9 (0.24)

64 (0.39)

2 (0.20)

63 (0.13)

20 (0.38)

L1

96 (0.12)

2 (0.06)

5 (0.13)

42 (0.26)

0 (0.00)

40 (0.08)

7 (0.13)

LTR

119 (0.15)

4 (0.11)

3 (0.08)

14 (0.09)

0 (0.00)

97 (0.20)

1 (0.02)

L2

16 (0.02)

1 (0.03)

1 (0.03)

4 (0.02)

4 (0.40)

4 (0.01)

2 (0.04)

MER

27 (0.03)

0 (0.00)

0 (0.00)

5 (0.03)

0 (0.00)

20 (0.04)

2 (0.04)

MIR

22 (0.03)

1 (0.03)

0 (0.00)

8 (0.05)

0 (0.00)

8 (0.02)

5 (0.10)

Other

6 (0.01)

0 (0.00)

0 (0.00)

2 (0.01)

0 (0.00)

3 (0.01)

1 (0.02)

Not Associated

352 (0.45)

3 (0.09)

23 (0.61)

44 (0.27)

5 (0.50)

259 (0.54)

18 (0.35)

TOTAL TESTED

781

35

38

163

10

483

52

  1. STRPs were screened using Repeat Masker for IREs that are within 50 bp in either direction of the short tandem repeats (excluding the tandem repeats). Sums of the numbers in the columns do not match the totals because some sequences had two different interspersed repeats within the 100 bp.