Figure 2. Fine-scale differences in recombination rates between females and males.

(a) Fraction of the autosomal genome with female recombination rate higher than the male rate (red) and male rate higher than female (blue). (b) An example of sex-specific hotspot on chromosome 15, recombining at higher rate in males (blue) than females (red). The 10 kb dimorphic region is centred around an inter-SNP interval showing significant sex-difference in rate based on the 99% credible intervals (CI) computed in our MCMC mapping method.