Table 1

Comparison of Alu density between heat shock responsive transcripts in upstream and genic regions and randomly selected genes

Comparison of Alu density

Regions

S.No

(two-tailed t-test)

P-value (upstream)

P-value (genic)

1

Up-regulated versus random

0.036

Not significant

2

Down-regulated versus random

0.020

7.48 × 10^-18

3

Down-regulated versus up-regulated

0.027

4.46 × 10^-22

Genes were randomly selected from UCSC RefSeq genes (hg18). S.No: Serial number

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