Table 3 Inferred correlations between estimated average recombination rates and recombination distances (in brackets) with heterozygosities, nucleotide diversities, GC content, Tajima's D statistic and the numbers of non-synonymous and synonymous polymorphisms, in the two populations as measured using Spearman's ρ and Kendall's τ statistics.
Test statistic | African-derived population sample | European-derived population sample | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Spearman's ρ | Kendall's τ | Spearman's ρ | Kendall's τ | |
Heterozygosity | - 0.11 (- 0.04) | - 0.08 (- 0.03) | 0.10 (0.09) | 0.07 (0.06) |
Nucleotide diversity | 0.19 (0.32) | 0.12 (0.22) | 0.20 (0.22) | 0.13 (0.15) |
GC-content | 0.37 (0.14) | 0.26 (0.10) | 0.26 (0.08) | 0.18 (0.06) |
Tajima's D statistic | 0.04 (0.07) | 0.04 (0.07) | 0.09 (0.09) | 0.05 (0.06) |
Number of non-synonymous polymorphisms | 0.13 (0.21) | 0.10 (0.16) | 0.17 (0.17) | 0.13 (0.13) |
Number of synonymous polymorphisms | 0.01 (0.11) | 0.01 (0.08) | -0.12 (-0.05) | - 0.09 (- 0.04) |