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Table 1 Summary of B. pseudomallei chromosomal repeat region frequency, duplication and location in coding regions

From: Tandem repeat regions within the Burkholderia pseudomallei genome and their application for high resolution genotyping

Chromosome

Size (bp)

GC%

Tandem repeat (TR) regions‡

TR/10 kb

#TR's in Sanger CDS

#TR's within 40 bp 5' of Sanger CDS

#TR's within 40 bp 3' of Sanger CDS

cis only duplicated TRs (in CDS)*

trans only duplicated TRs (in CDS)*

Both cis and trans duplicated TRs (in CDS)*

total dup arrays (in CDS)*

Large

4,074,542

67.7

285

0.699

72**

8

43

22 (4)

56 (12)

30 (2)

108 (18)***

Small

3,173,005

68.5

324

1.021

103**

11

42

25 (8)

48 (14)

41 (13)

114 (35)***

Total

7,247,547

68.1†

609

0.860†

175**

19

85

47(12)

104(26)

71(15)

222(53)***

  1. ‡ Regions with repeats ≥ 2 bp, ≥ 4 repeat units and array sizes ≥ 30 bp
  2. † Average number
  3. *duplications ≥ 20 bp and 80% similarity
  4. **all but 4 and 8 (X1 and X2, resp.) of the non degenerate arrays had RU sizes of 3 bp multiples
  5. ***Average duplication size of 50 bp