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Table 3 Overrepresentation of SSR-couples in the whole genome and in the cds.

From: Survey of microsatellite clustering in eight fully sequenced species sheds light on the origin of compound microsatellites

	whole genome				cds
	obs.¹	exp.²	or.³	P⁴	obs.¹	exp.²	or.³	P⁴
H. sap.	69 670	4 488	15	0⁵	129	4	36	0⁵
M. mul.	72 780	4 800	15	0⁵	74	2	30	3E-82
M. mus.	223 973	9 526	23	0⁵	107	3	40	0⁵
R. nor.	157 300	6 639	23	0⁵	134	2	81	0⁵
O. anat.	2 052	399	5	0⁵	18	1	28	6E-22
G. gal.	9 435	512	18	0⁵	41	1	40	9E-52
D. rerio	130 012	7 026	18	0⁵	93	2	42	0⁵
D. mel.	743	164	4	0⁵	108	4	24	0⁵

¹observed number of SSR-couples
²expected number of SSR-couples with respect to a random distribution of microsatellites within DNA sequence space
³overrepresentation (obs./exp.)
⁴significance of the overrepresentation based on a Poisson Distribution
⁵p < 1E - 99

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