Average gene length

Value 1.4 kb
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Krebs, Goldstein & Kilpatrick, Lewin's Genes XI, 2014, Jones & Bartlett Learning, p.89 left column top paragraph
Comments P.89 left column top paragraph: "The average yeast gene is 1.4 kb long, and very few are longer than 5 kb." For median length of RNA molecule of 1474 nucleotides see BNID 100202. For mRNA length of ~2kb see Oeffinger M et al. PMID 22387213 p.501 right column 3rd paragraph
Entered by Ben Marks
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