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A putative first exon, corresponding to the 5' end of the Celera transcript, maps at least 74-kb upstream of exon 2. Based on a combination of the public and Celera assemblies, the APBA2 transcriptional unit spans >197 kb.
3 minimal deletion spans between 0-5.
Completed in 1890, the bridge comprises three huge cantilevers joined by two suspended spans, for a total length of 1,447 m (4,746 ft).
By this definition, the Release 3 sequence that spans the euchromatin includes 2.1 Mb of sequence in centric heterochromatin, and this sequence includes 150 curated genes described in Misra et al.
We provide the z-value corresponding to the middle of each percentile step - e.g. for the 5 thpercentile, which spans babies from >4% to 5%, we present the z-value corresponding to 4.5%.