Insertions and Deletions Are Male Biased Too: A Whole-Genome Analysis in Rodents

Table 1.

Male Mutation Bias in Insertions and Deletions That Accumulated in the Ancestral Repeats in Rat and Mouse Since Their Divergence From the Common Ancestor


Indel type

NX

RateX

NA

RateA

X/A

α (95% CI)
Mouse deletions 22,278 0.0041 468,707 0.0047 0.871 2.260 (1.961—2.630)
Rat deletions 24,924 0.0046 542,992 0.0054 0.841 2.818 (2.440—3.291)
Total deletions 47,202 0.0086 1,011,699 0.0101 0.855 2.538 (2.200—2.957)
Mouse insertions 12,375 0.0023 251,339 0.0025 0.902 1.828 (1.561—2.157)
Rat insertions 11,001 0.0020 226,459 0.0023 0.890 1.980 (1.679—2.361)
Total insertions 23,376 0.0043 477,798 0.0048 0.897 1.898 (1.616—2.251)
Indels
70,578
0.0129
1,489,497
0.0148
0.869
2.304 (1.986—2.699)
  • All ARs (“younger” and “older”) are considered together. NX and NA indicate the numbers of indels that accumulated on chromosome X and autosomes, respectively; rateX and rateA, the indel rates (a number of indels per base pair of alignment) on chromosome X and autosomes, respectively; X/A, the ratio of indel rates on chromosome X versus autosomes; and α (95% CI), the male-to female mutation rate ratio and its 95% confidence interval: 5,477,266 bp and 100,388,643 bp in the ancestral repeats were analyzed on chromosome X and autosomes, respectively.

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