Large-scale genomic correlations in Arabidopsis thaliana relate to chromosomal structure

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Correlations between different genomic elements in Arabidopsis.

Genomic elements compared	r ^a	P value^b
retrotransposons vs. CCSs	0.87	< 0.00001
retrotransposons vs. 180 bp repeats	0.75	< 0.00001
indels vs. SNPs	0.68	< 0.00001
180 bp repeats vs. CCSs	0.66	< 0.00001
genes vs. retrotransposons	-0.65	< 0.00001
genes vs. CCSs	-0.63	< 0.00001
SNPs vs. retrotransposons	-0.46	0.00005
SNPs vs. CCSs	-0.42	0.0004
genes vs. 180 bp repeats	-0.41	0.001
indels vs. CCSs	-0.40	0.001
SNPs vs. 180 bp repeats	0.40	0.002
indels vs. retrotransposons	-0.32	0.03
indels vs. 180 bp repeats	-0.31	0.05
genes vs. SNPs	0.30	NS^c
genes vs. indels	0.23	NS

^athe correlation coefficient r given here represents the quadratic mean taken from all five Arabidopsis chromosomes using 1 Mb enumerative bins; ^bP value, probability value; ^cNS, not significant;

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