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

Table 4.

Strongest Correlations of Sequence Variables and Recombination Rate in 5-Mb Nonoverlapping Windows

Rat			Mouse			Human
Variable^a	*r_s*^b	Variable^a	*r_s*^b	Variable^a	*r_s*^b
CpG	0.386	LINEs	-0.514	(CA)_n≥20	0.511
SimpleRpts	0.376	Total IRs	-0.506	CpG	0.498
R_n≥30/Y_n≥30	0.370	CpG	0.503	GC%	0.449
Total IRs	-0.362	A_n≥4/T_n≥4	-0.473	R_n≥30/Y_n≥30	0.446
LINEs	-0.355	GC%	0.464	LINEs	-0.443
(CA)_n≥20	0.343	(CA)_n≥20	0.460	S_n≥20	0.428

↵a See Methods section explanation of sequence variable abbreviations
↵b Spearman nonparametric correlation coefficient

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