Does conservation account for splicing patterns?

BMC Genomics

Table 3 Intronic cis elements that diverged farther in the past have greater differences in splicing patterns

Mammalian conservation	Average primate conservation	Mean Ψ
Old^-	Low	0.728 ± 0.003
	High	0.63 ± 0.01
Old⁺	Low	0.56 ± 0.02
	High	0.500 ± 0.007
New	Low	0.390 ± 0.004
	High	0.37 ± 0.03

Mean and standard error of Ψ for events in each regime, broken down further by whether the average primate conservation over 100 bp of the upstream flanking intron is high (> 0.5) or low (downstream results are similar). Events in Old^- have higher Ψ than those in Old⁺; within each of these regimes, events with low average primate conservation also have higher Ψ

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