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Table 1 Difference in length and exon number between housekeeping and tissue specific transcripts.

From: Mining housekeeping genes with a Naive Bayes classifier

 

Human

Mouse

Fruit fly

 

HK

TS

P value

HK

TS

P value

HK

TS

P value

Average cDNA length (bp)

1681

2534

l.0E-09

1271

2402

5.6E-17

1413

2705

2.8E-18

Average CDS length (bp)

899

1670

5.9E-16

817

1623

2.8E-18

864

1886

2.5E-18

Average number of exons

7.2

10.7

6.0E-04

6.7

11.4

4.2E-13

4.0

7.3

1.7E-21

  1. HK = housekeeping, TS = tissue specific. P value for t-test two tail hypothesis.