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Official Journal of the Human Genome Organisation

Table 1 Correlation between the Presence of Microhomology (1–7 bp) and the length of the 5′ truncation of Alu insertion polymorphismsa

From: Mechanism of Alu integration into the human genome

Starting positions

Number of entries manifesting microhomology (A)

Total number of entries (B)

% (A/B)

8–47

40

115

34.8

23 (1 bp)

20.0

17 (≥2 bp)

14.8

51–106

15

38

39.5

10 (1 bp)

26.3

5 (≥2 bp)

13.2

131–288

29

51

56.8

17 (1 bp)

33.3

12 (≥2 bp)

23.5

  1. aData from Fig. 3