Gene expression patterns of chicken neuregulin 3 in association with copy number variation and frameshift deletion

Table 1 Highly conserved elements found in the upstream region of chicken NRG3

	Region	Start	End	Length (bp)	Strand	Similarity (%)
NRG3	Exon 1	3,201,956	3,201,853	104	Reverse
NRG3	Intron 1^a	3,201,852	3,201,523	330	Reverse
E1a	Exon 1	3,209,457	3,209,388	70^b	Reverse	94.29
Int1a	Intron 1^a	3,207,504	3,207,175	330	Reverse	94.85
E1b	Exon 1	3,217,198	3,217,129	70^b	Reverse	97.14
Int1b	Intron 1^a	3,215,224	3,214,895	330	Reverse	95.15
E1c	Exon 1	3,234,535	3,234,437	99	Reverse	95.56
Int1c	Intron 1^a	3,234,436	3,234,120	317	Reverse	92.14
Ex1_long^c	Exon 1	3,304,770	3,304,436	335	Reverse	99.70
E1d_1	Exon 1	5,485,492	5,485,523	32	Forward	93.75
E1d_2	Exon 1	5,485,525	5,485,551	27	Forward	96.30
E1d_3	Exon 1	5,485,879	5,485,912	34	Forward	97.06
Int1d	Intron 1^a	5,485,913	5,486,242	330	Forward	95.15

^aThe exon 1 adjacent region (330 bp) is considered here, due to its high sequence similarity
^bOnly the 5′ UTR is highly conserved
^cTruncated sequence of “Exon 1_long” in the CLASS II isoforms (see Fig. 4)

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