Evidence for a Fast, Intrachromosomal Conversion Mechanism From Mapping of Nucleotide Variants Within a Homogeneous α-Satellite DNA Array

Table 2.

PAC Ranking

PAC Insert size (pulsed-field) Fraction of 2-kb BamHI fragments of insert size (%) Total number of 2-kb BamHI fragments Size of unusual BamHI fragments in kilobases and number (n) as estimated from total BamHI digests and partial mapping or deduced from PAC end sequencing (*) Medium homology of sequence pairs (% nucleotides) Maximum deviation of sequence pairs (% nucleotides) Frequency of single variants (% nucleotides)
A6 160 kb 82 63 0.9 (1*), 1.7 (2), 2.2 (1), 2.9 (5), 4.9 (1) 98.83 2.1 0.33
B11 125 kb 91 56 0.55 (1*), 2.9 (2), 4.9 (1) 98.58 2.1 0.20
A7 145 kb 99 70 0.9 (1*) 99.12 1.5 0.14
A10 130 kb 99 64 0.9 (1*) 99.11 1.3 0.07
A8 120 kb 98 59 0.9 (1*), 1.7 (1) 99.25 1.3 0.08

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