Table 2 Identification of hyper-edited RNAs in different species.

From: A genome-wide map of hyper-edited RNA reveals numerous new sites

Species* (reference)

Source reads † (Mapped reads)

Hyper-editing sites (% A-to-G of total)

Hyper-editing sites per mapped read

Human‡ (Illumina Human BodyMap project 2.0)

64,313,204 (59,130,196)

75,984 (98.93%)

1.3 × 10−3

Mouse46

114,374,684 (103,507,244)

11,849 (96.38%)

1.1 × 10−4

Rat47

238,077,800 (199,514,577)

21,761 (93.61%)

1.1 × 10−4

Opossum48

22,273,667 (14,411,371)

1,563 (89.88%)

1.1 × 10−4

Drosophila 49

257,255,489 (248,984,465)

39,472 (99.87%)

1.6 × 10−4

  1. *Additional details are given in Supplementary Table 4.
  2. †Paired-end reads were counted as two single-end reads.
  3. ‡Values are reported only for the brain-derived subset of reads, in order to facilitate comparison with the other species.
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