Does Recombination Shape the Distribution and Evolution of Tandemly Arrayed Genes (TAGs) in the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome?

Table 2.

Fisher's Exact Tests, Based on the Number of TAGs and Non-TAG Genes in Centromeric and Noncentromeric Regions

	Centromeric			Noncentromeric
Chromosome	No. TAG^a	No. gene^b	No. TAG	No. gene	P Value
Data set 10^–10/1
1	98	469	1047	4992	0.51
2	55	480	562	3025	<0.001
3	46	368	808	3941	<0.001
4	109	410	586	2704	0.96
5	73	379	865	4528	0.56
All	381	2106	3868	19,190	0.03
Data set 10^–30/0
1	49	518	811	5228	<0.001
2	34	501	417	3170	<0.001
3	22	392	624	4125	<0.001
4	64	455	465	2825	0.15
5	40	412	681	4712	<0.01
All	209	2278	2998	20,060	<0.001

↵a Number of TAGs
↵b Number of non-TAGs

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Genome Res. 2003. 13: 2533-2540

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