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The intron-exon boundary sequences are indicated in Table 3. In keeping with the human and mouse STSL loci, the rat Abcg5 and Abcg8 genes are arranged in a head-to-head configuration, with a distance of 379 bp separating their respective initiation codons.
One can, however, explain most of the variance in the response of both codons and amino acids by taking into account the fact that the three codon positions change at different rates, and that the four nucleotides are not evenly distributed among the sites that are functionally constrained.
In more detailed analyses, several groups tested individual codons for replacement mutations that are, as an aggregate, overabundant [ 23, 36, 37, 38].
For example, the amino acid lysine has two codons, AAA and AAG.
Even within genomes, the overall composition of individual genes seems to explain up to half the variance in the responses of the individual codons and amino acids.