Table 1.
Association of Rearrangement Breakpoints with Repeats
| Breakpoint type | Number of breakpoints | P-value |
| Translocation | 445 | 3.3 × 10−5 |
| Inversion | 185 | 0.10 |
| Transposition | 469 | 2.9 × 10−4 |
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The number of rearrangement breakpoints in intergenic spacers containing at least one of 33 dispersed repeat families was compared with the number of intergenic spacers in the genome containing one or more dispersed repeats. Only intergenic spacers of 10 kb or shorter were included, of which there are 16,574 in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome. The P-values for one-sided χ2 tests are given after applying the Bonferroni correction for multiple testing (multiplies the raw P-values by 3).
