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Mean 3 prime-UTR length in mRNA transcripts

Value	>=500 nt
Organism	Human Homo sapiens
Reference	Mazumder B, Seshadri V, Fox PL. Translational control by the 3'-UTR: the ends specify the means. Trends Biochem Sci. 2003 Feb28(2):91-8.PubMed ID12575997
Method	Computational analysis of a large UTR database: link
Comments	Additional analysis of the same database suggests that the length of 3'-UTR increases with evolutionary age and, possibly, with organism complexity ( Fig. 5). By contrast, the 5'-UTR length is remarkably consistent in organisms ranging from fungi and plants to invertebrates and vertebrates, including humans.
Entered by	Uri M
ID	102574