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. 2008 Jul 11;4(7):e1000119. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000119

Table 2. Correlation between gene density and recombination rates.

Sex 200 kb 500 kb 1 mb 2 mb 5 mb 10 mb
Chr 1 entire
r p r p r p r p r p r p
Female 0.093 0.000 0.184 0.001 0.206 0.001 0.308 0.000 0.482 0.000 0.678 0.001
Male 0.055 0.045 0.126 0.011 0.141 0.023 0.255 0.005 0.250 0.064 0.327 0.107
Sex-Average 0.079 0.007 0.164 0.001 0.187 0.005 0.304 0.001 0.379 0.009 0.557 0.005
3–50 Mb
Female 0.131 0.030 0.165 0.051 0.155 0.128 0.096 0.304 0.377 0.131
Male 0.079 0.115 0.172 0.053 0.146 0.142 0.120 0.251 0.062 0.352
Sex-Average 0.115 0.051 0.180 0.036 0.161 0.121 0.117 0.285 0.209 0.238
50–100 Mb
Female 0.019 0.771 0.072 0.487 0.075 0.614 0.166 0.438 0.626 0.053
Male 0.074 0.251 0.084 0.414 0.112 0.449 0.336 0.109 0.600 0.067
Sex-Average 0.055 0.396 0.085 0.409 0.103 0.487 0.286 0.176 0.674 0.032
100–150 Mb
Female 0.295 0.000 0.405 0.000 0.495 0.001 0.696 0.000 0.876 0.000
Male 0.191 0.007 0.299 0.006 0.419 0.003 0.558 0.003 0.821 0.003
Sex-Average 0.278 0.000 0.403 0.000 0.505 0.000 0.689 0.000 0.877 0.001
150–197 Mb
Female −0.035 0.317 0.051 0.321 −0.010 0.469 −0.019 0.499 0.576 0.068
Male −0.058 0.225 0.007 0.440 −0.096 0.305 −0.234 0.165 0.207 0.251
Sex-Average −0.053 0.218 0.025 0.403 −0.071 0.351 −0.175 0.248 0.433 0.138
168.8–193.5 Mb
50 kb 100 kb 200 kb
Female −0.007 0.427 −0.037 0.303 −0.067 0.238
Male 0.018 0.335 0.010 0.430 −0.080 0.204
Sex-Average 0.010 0.412 −0.008 0.460 −0.081 0.201

r represents correlation coefficient, p is the probability calculated by bootstrapping. The correlations with p<0.05 are shown in bold.