Association of Translocation and Transposition Breakpoints with Particular Repeats
| Dispersed repeat | All 16,574 spacers | Translocation breakpoints | P-value for translocations | Transposition breakpoints | P-value for transpositions |
| CeRep10 | 582 | 23 | 1.00 | 25 | 1.00 |
| CeRep11 | 137 | 4 | 1.00 | 7 | 1.00 |
| CeRep12 | 553 | 17 | 1.00 | 24 | 1.00 |
| CeRep13 | 354 | 22 | 0.003 | 15 | 1.00 |
| CeRep14 | 320 | 16 | 0.44 | 11 | 1.00 |
| CeRep15 | 186 | 14 | 0.005 | 10 | 1.00 |
| CeRep17 | 345 | 19 | 0.06 | 11 | 1.00 |
| CeRep18 | 197 | 10 | 1.00 | 11 | 0.90 |
| CeRep19 | 685 | 33 | 0.02 | 18 | 1.00 |
| CeRep20 | 144 | 9 | 0.47 | 11 | 0.045 |
| CeRep21 | 177 | 8 | 1.00 | 11 | 0.36 |
| CeRep22 | 122 | 6 | 1.00 | 8 | 0.75 |
| CeRep23 | 708 | 27 | 1.00 | 31 | 0.42 |
| CeRep24 | 625 | 20 | 1.00 | 23 | 1.00 |
| CeRep25 | 7 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 1.00 |
| CeRep26 | 154 | 4 | 1.00 | 7 | 1.00 |
| CeRep27 | 71 | 5 | 1.00 | 4 | 1.00 |
| CeRep28 | 92 | 4 | 1.00 | 5 | 1.00 |
| CeRep29 | 150 | 6 | 1.00 | 5 | 1.00 |
| CeRep30 | 37 | 2 | 1.00 | 4 | 0.50 |
| CeRep31 | 23 | 1 | 1.00 | 2 | 1.00 |
| CeRep32 | 226 | 15 | 0.02 | 6 | 1.00 |
| CeRep33 | 22 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1.00 |
| CeRep34 | 321 | 10 | 1.00 | 16 | 0.78 |
| CeRep35 | 177 | 9 | 1.00 | 5 | 1.00 |
| CeRep36 | 187 | 6 | 1.00 | 6 | 1.00 |
| CeRep37 | 122 | 4 | 1.00 | 11 | 0.006 |
| CeRep38 | 310 | 12 | 1.00 | 15 | 1.00 |
| CeRep39 | 14 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1.00 |
| CeRep40 | 122 | 5 | 1.00 | 2 | 1.00 |
| CeRep41 | 49 | 3 | 1.00 | 1 | 1.00 |
| CeRep42 | 110 | 5 | 1.00 | 5 | 1.00 |
| CeRep43 | 590 | 27 | 0.17 | 23 | 1.00 |
| 29 + 35 + 36 + 40 | 24 | 2 | 1.00 | 0 | 1.00 |
| 29/35/36/40 | 391 | 14 | 1.00 | 10 | 1.00 |
| 17 + 19 + 32 | 166 | 11 | 0.12 | 5 | 1.00 |
| 17/19/32 | 720 | 33 | 0.06 | 18 | 1.00 |
| 13 + 18 + 33 | 17 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1.00 |
| 13/18/33 | 383 | 22 | 0.01 | 15 | 1.00 |
| 34 + 43 | 212 | 10 | 1.00 | 7 | 1.00 |
| 34/43 | 699 | 27 | 1.00 | 29 | 1.00 |
| 24 + 38 | 308 | 12 | 1.00 | 15 | 1.00 |
| 24/38 | 627 | 20 | 1.00 | 23 | 1.00 |
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The number of translocation/transposition breakpoints in intergenic spacers containing a particular dispersed repeat was compared with the number of intergenic spacers in the genome containing that repeat. Only intergenic spacers of 10 kb or shorter were included, of which there are 16,574 in the Caenorhabditis elegansgenome. We tested whether breakpoints are associated with five compound repeats. For example, for the compound repeat CeRep19–CeRep32–CeRep17–CeRep19, we tested whether intergenic spacers containing breakpoints tend to contain all members of the repeat (17 + 19 + 32), or at least one member of this repeat (17/19/32). The P-values for one-sided χ2tests are given after applying the Bonferroni correction for multiple testing (multiplies the raw P-values by 43).
