Analysis of human meiotic recombination events with a parent-sibling tracing approach

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Number of recombination sites in 2145 siblings from 853 families

Chromosome	Male	Female	Female/male
chr1	3990	6819	1.71
chr2	3917	6723	1.72
chr3	3507	5847	1.67
chr4	3007	5361	1.78
chr5	2864	5255	1.83*
chr6	2971	5063	1.70
chr7	2582	4560	1.77
chr8	2378	4212	1.77
chr9	2495	3883	1.56
chr10	2544	4417	1.74
chr11	2348	4017	1.71
chr12	2503	4140	1.65
chr13	1996	3162	1.58
chr14	2007	2784	1.39*
chr15	1988	2859	1.44*
chr16	1762	2902	1.65
chr17	1393	2783	2.00*
chr18	1856	2903	1.56
chr19	1210	2072	1.71
chr20	1612	2383	1.48*
chr21	1004	1444	1.44*
chr22	965	1265	1.31*
chrX		2932

* P value < 0.01 (chi square analysis under the null hypothesis that the male-to-female proportion was 1.667)

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