Comparative Recombination Rates in the Rat, Mouse, and Human Genomes

Table 1

Physical and Genetic Lengths of Chromosomes, and Chromosome Wide Recombination Rates



Rat

Mouse

Human
Chr
Assembly size (Mb)a
Physical size (Mb)b
Genetic length (cM)c
Recombination rate (cM/Mb)d
Assembly size (Mb)
Physical size (Mb)
Genetic length (cM)
Recombination rate (cM/Mb)
Assembly size (Mb)
Physical size (Mb)
Genetic length (cM)
Recombination Rate (cM/Mb)
   1 268.1 267.4 149.3 0.56 195.9 187.6 113.6 0.61 245.2 241.0 270.3 1.12
   2 258.2 255.3 112.4 0.44 181.4 177.5 96.2 0.54 243.3 241.6 257.5 1.07
   3 171.0 166.0 91.5 0.55 160.7 151.9 66.7 0.44 199.4 199.0 220.8 1.11
   4 187.4 186.1 102.2 0.55 152.9 147.4 79.8 0.54 191.6 190.6 204.5 1.07
   5 173.1 171.6 105.7 0.62 149.7 145.7 82.0 0.56 181.0 180.3 205.7 1.14
   6 147.6 134.2 85.2 0.63 150.0 144.7 65.6 0.45 170.7 169.7 189.6 1.12
   7 143.1 141.6 88.5 0.62 134.4 130.0 67.8 0.52 158.4 155.1 179.3 1.16
   8 129.1 126.8 84.1 0.66 128.9 123.7 75.4 0.61 145.9 144.6 166.1 1.15
   9 113.7 109.5 78.3 0.71 124.5 116.8 67.7 0.58 134.5 133.9 160.0 1.20
10 110.7 101.2 92.8 0.92 130.7 122.9 75.4 0.61 135.5 134.2 176.0 1.31
11 87.8 73.6 39.0 0.53 122.9 118.4 80.9 0.68 135.0 134.0 152.5 1.14
12 46.6 43.6 51.9 1.19 114.5 108.5 55.7 0.51 133.5 132.8 172.0 1.30
13 111.3 75.1 43.9 0.58 116.2 112.1 57.9 0.52 114.2 94.4 130.0 1.37
14 112.2 105.7 70.9 0.67 115.8 108.9 69.9 0.64 105.3 83.8 118.5 1.41
15 109.8 106.1 63.8 0.60 104.1 100.9 63.4 0.63 100.1 77.5 128.8 1.66
16 90.2 76.6 45.5 0.59 99.0 95.4 51.4 0.54 90.0 89.2 128.9 1.45
17 97.3 91.0 43.9 0.48 93.5 85.8 49.2 0.57 81.7 80.2 135.1 1.68
18 87.3 84.7 52.3 0.62 91.0 86.3 39.3 0.46 77.8 77.0 120.6 1.57
19 59.2 56.4 48.1 0.85 61.1 55.5 57.9 1.04 63.8 61.5 109.7 1.78
20 55.3 50.6 48.2 0.95 63.6 58.4 98.6 1.69
21 47.0 30.1 61.9 2.06
22 49.5 31.4 65.9 2.10
X 160.8 130.8 44.6 0.34 150.0 145.6 57.9 0.40 152.6 148.5 179.0 1.21
Total 2719.9 2553.9 1542.1 0.60 2577.3 2465.6 1373.7 0.56 3019.6 2888.5 3630.5 1.26
Autosomes
2559.1
2423.1
1497.4
0.62
2427.3
2320.0
1315.8
0.57
2866.9
2740.0
3451.5
1.26
  • a Assembly size is the size of the chromosome based on the complete genome assembly

  • b Physical size is the distance in Mb between the first and last mapped markers

  • c Genetic length is the distance in cM between the first and last mapped markers

  • d Recombination rate is the genetic length divided by the physical size

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