Francisco M. De La Vega; Hadar Isaac; Andrew Collins; Charles R. Scafe; Bjarni V. Halldórsson; Xiaoping Su; Ross A. Lippert; Yu Wang; Marion Laig-Webster; Ryan T. Koehler; Janet S. Ziegle; Lewis T. Wogan; Junko F. Stevens; Kyle M. Leinen; Sheri J. Olson; Karl J. Guegler; Xiaoqing You; Lily H. Xu; Heinz G. Hemken; Francis Kalush; Mitsuo Itakura; Yi Zheng; Guy de Thé; Stephen J. O'Brien; Andrew G. Clark; Sorin Istrail; Michael W. Hunkapiller; Eugene G. Spier; Dennis A. Gilbert

The linkage disequilibrium maps of three human chromosomes across four populations reflect their demographic history and a common underlying recombination pattern

Table 4.

Fraction of the LDU variance explained by sequence descriptors

Chromosome	Recombination (cM/Mb)	All (six) descriptors	All (five) descriptors except recombination	Polymorphism density^a	GC content	LINES density^a	SINES density^a	CpG islands^a
6	0.673	0.725	0.431	0.232	0.110	0.137	0.102	0.054
21	0.766	0.890	0.744	0.590	0.249	0.068	0.000	0.186
22	0.840	0.917	0.548	0.472	0.000	0.047	0.206	0.141

The correlations are reported for 2-MB bins generated as described in Methods for the Caucasian samples. Similar results were obtained for the other populations studied.
↵a Density calculated as number of features per window

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Published in Advance March 21, 2005, doi: 10.1101/gr.3241705 Genome Res. 2005. 15: 454-462

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