Construction and evaluation of a new rat reference genome assembly, GRCr8, from long reads and long-range scaffolding

Table 1.

Localization of repetitive centromeric structures in the assembly

Chr Centromere detected Position (Mb) Extent (Mb)
Chr 1 (SM) N
Chr 2 (T) Y 2.5 0.5
Chr 3 (A) N
Chr 4 (T) Y 0.9 0.4
Chr 5 (T) Y 2.3 4.4
Chr 6 (T) Y 2.5 5
Chr 7 (T) Y 0.2 0.4
Chr 8 (T) Y 2.5 5
Chr 9 (T) N
Chr 10 (T) Y 0.3 0.4
Chr 11 (A) Y 1.8 3.5
Chr 12 (A) N
Chr 13 (SM) Y 30.5 2
Chr 14 (M) Y 48.5 4
Chr 15 (M) Y 49 2.5
Chr 16 (M) Y 42 1.6
Chr 17 (M) Y 45 4
Chr 18 (M) Y 38.6 1.8
Chr 19 (M) Y 39 0.6
Chr 20 (M) Y 26.2 0.5
Chr X (T) Y 2.4 1.5
Chr Y (T) N
  • (A) Acrocentric, (M) metacentric, (SM) submetacentric, (T) telocentric, (Y) yes, and (N) no.

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  1. Genome Res. 34: 2081-2093

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