| Range |
number of introns 8/typical gene: average length of intron 3.4kb
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| Organism |
Human Homo sapiens |
| Reference |
Hnilicová J, Stanek D. Where splicing joins chromatin. Nucleus. 2011 May2(3):182-188. p.182 left column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID21818411
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| Primary Source |
[1] Lander et al. International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature. 2001 Feb 15 409(6822):860-921. p.896 table 21PubMed ID11237011
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| Comments |
P.182 left column 2nd paragraph: "The vast majority of our genes has a puzzle-like structure where short coding sequences (exons) must be correctly identified and joined together while surrounding much longer non-coding sequences (introns) have to be removed before a mature mRNA is exported to the cytoplasm and translated. A typical human gene contains 8 introns of average length ~3.4 kb but much larger examples were found (e.g., the last intron of glypican 5 gene is 721 kb in length)(primary source)." Precise value in primary source is 3.365kb. Median number of exons in primary source is 7 exons, i.e 8 introns |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
106732 |