Table 2.
Variance and Coefficient of Variation in Recombination Rates
| Genomic variance in recombination rate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Scale (Mb) | Estimate | Lower CLa | Upper CLa |
| Rat | 10 | 0.117 | 0.096 | 0.139 |
| 5 | 0.191 | 0.160 | 0.223 | |
| Mouse | 10 | 0.113 | 0.090 | 0.138 |
| 5 | 0.207 | 0.173 | 0.243 | |
| Human (DeCode) | 10 | 0.396 | 0.317 | 0.476 |
| 5 | 0.513 | 0.436 | 0.594 | |
| Human (Marshfield) | 10 | 0.421 | 0.344 | 0.504 |
| 5 | 0.602 | 0.518 | 0.690 | |
| Genomic coefficients of variation in recombination rateb | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Scale (Mb) | Estimate | Lower CLa | Upper CLa |
| Rat | 10 | 58.6 | 53.5 | 63.5 |
| 5 | 74.1 | 68.9 | 79.3 | |
| Mouse | 10 | 63.5 | 57.5 | 69.4 |
| 5 | 82.3 | 76.4 | 88.2 | |
| Human (DeCode) | 10 | 51.2 | 46.8 | 55.2 |
| 5 | 56.1 | 52.6 | 59.4 | |
| Human (Marshfield) | 10 | 56.6 | 51.7 | 61.5 |
| 5 | 66.6 | 62.4 | 70.9 | |
a
Lower CL and Upper CL provide 95% confidence limits estimated with 10,000 bootstrap replicates
b
The coefficient of variation is expressed as a percentage