Table 4.

Fraction of the LDU variance explained by sequence descriptors

Chromosome
Recombination (cM/Mb)
All (six) descriptors
All (five) descriptors except recombination
Polymorphism densitya
GC content
LINES densitya
SINES densitya
CpG islandsa
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