Table 2.

Spearman rank correlation between features in relation to microsatellite motif length

x	y	mismatches	3-mer (8 d.f.)	4-mer (31 d.f.)	5-mer (99 d.f.)	6-mer (348 d.f.)	all (499 d.f.)
compfreq	simpfreq	0	0.915***	0.714***	0.860***	0.789***	0.840***
compfreq	simpfreq	1	0.964***	0.900***	0.901***	0.693***	0.732***
compfreq	simpfreq	2	0.960***	0.809***	0.844***	0.755***	0.805***
simprepe	comprepe	0	0.736*	0.19	0.138	0.390***	0.313***
simprepe	comprepe	1	0.467	0.556***	0.183	0.519***	0.660***
simprepe	comprepe	2	0.758*	0.494**	0.067	0.370***	0.488***
simppoly	comppoly	0	0.024	0.029	0.201*	0.068	0.127**
simppoly	comppoly	1	0.701*	0.452**	0.291**	0.160**	0.222***
simppoly	comppoly	2	0.284	-0.217	0.037	0.143**	0.090*
simpfreq	simprepe	0	0.079	0.327	-0.053	0.486***	0.487***
simpfreq	simprepe	1	0.2	0.073	0.062	0.487***	0.404***
simpfreq	simprepe	2	0.03	0.303	-0.159	0.315***	0.363***
compfreq	comprepe	0	0.517	0.167	0.236*	0.296***	0.100*
compfreq	comprepe	1	0.333	0.015	0.433***	0.204***	-0.05
compfreq	comprepe	2	-0.17	0.432*	0.314**	0.609***	0.601***
simprepe	simppoly	0	-0.018	0.073	0.168	0.185***	0.136**
simprepe	simppoly	1	-0.255	0.263	0.055	0.130*	0.115*
simprepe	simppoly	2	-0.122	0.181	0.087	0.228***	0.129**
comprepe	comppoly	0	-0.25	0.534**	-0.049	-0.029	0.068
comprepe	comppoly	1	0.105	0.298	-0.099	0.201***	0.142**
comprepe	comppoly	2	-0.614	0.082	0.292**	0.434***	0.394***
*, p <= 0.05; **, p <= 0.01; ***, p <= 0.001