TABLE 4.
The average absolute and relative distances between neighboring MLH1 foci including the υ-value (shape parameter) of the gamma distribution for the within-arm data
| Distance across centromere
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Distance within arms
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute (μm)
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Relativea
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Absolute (μm)
|
Relativea
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| Chromosome | N | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | υ |
| af | 625 | 10.5 | 3.4 | 0.42 | 0.11 | 788 | 6.4 | 2.2 | 0.42 | 0.13 | 11.1 |
| bc | 634 | 10.0 | 3.3 | 0.40 | 0.12 | 904 | 6.1 | 1.9 | 0.48 | 0.13 | 13.6 |
| d | 525 | 5.4 | 1.6 | 0.48 | 0.13 | 13.8 | |||||
| gm | 601 | 7.3 | 2.2 | 0.52 | 0.13 | 152 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 0.54 | 0.13 | 15.3 |
| hi | 621 | 8.7 | 2.6 | 0.51 | 0.13 | 199 | 5.0 | 1.5 | 0.55 | 0.13 | 14.5 |
| jl | 621 | 9.8 | 2.3 | 0.66 | 0.12 | 71 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 0.55 | 0.13 | 15.6 |
| j/l | 26 | 8.8 | 2.4 | 0.60 | 0.13 | ||||||
| ko | 42 | 8.8 | 1.7 | 0.65 | 0.11 | ||||||
| k/o | 44 | 8.3 | 2.2 | 0.64 | 0.10 | ||||||
| kq | 55 | 8.7 | 2.2 | 0.63 | 0.12 | ||||||
| k/q | 153 | 7.3 | 1.7 | 0.60 | 0.12 | ||||||
| no | 22 | 8.1 | 1.4 | 0.67 | 0.12 | ||||||
| n/o | 216 | 7.2 | 1.5 | 0.64 | 0.11 | ||||||
| pr | 533 | 5.3 | 1.2 | 0.69 | 0.12 | ||||||
| tu | 69 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.57 | 0.10 | ||||||
a
Relative interfocus distance across the centromere was calculated in terms of fractions of the chromosome length; within a chromosome arm it was calculated as a fraction of the arm length.