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Pedigree-estimated (relative) recombination rates in 4-Mb sliding windows along human chromosome 1. The vertical dotted line indicates a 4-Mb window encompassing two candidate regions identified by the Chimpanzee and HapMap consortia and coinciding with a recombination desert.