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Table 3 The correlation between the frequency of frame-shift start and stop codons and (a) their expected frequencies; and (b) the genomic GC content. All correlations are significant at the p < 0.001 level (sample size is 167).

From: Same-strand overlapping genes in bacteria: compositional determinants of phase bias

Frame-Shift Codon

Phase

Combining Codons

aCorrelation Observed-Expected

bCorrelation Observed-GC%

Start

ATG

1

NAT,GNN

0.96

-0.84

  

2

NNA,TGN

0.89

-0.76

 

GTG

1

NGT,GNN

0.94

-0.34

  

2

NNG,TGN

0.86

0.80

 

TTG

1

NTT,GNN

0.96

-0.80

  

2

NNT,TGN

0.87

-0.70

Stop

TAA

1

NTA,ANN

0.98

-0.87

  

2

NNT,AAN

0.97

-0.93

 

TAG

1

NTA,GNN

0.96

-0.89

  

2

NNT,AGN

0.90

-0.84

 

TGA

1

NTG,ANN

0.86

0.51

  

2

NNT,GAN

0.92

-0.84