Bar plots of 8-oxoG density and eight predictors. The recombination rate (sex-averaged) was obtained from the deCODE study (Kong et al. 2002). The GC content and CpG island density were obtained from Venter et al. (2001). Gene density, pseudo gene density, and chromosomal length were obtained from the Ensembl Genome browser (http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/). Poly (A or T) and (C or G) fractions were obtained from Rohrer et al. (2002).