Figure 4

Deviation in length of polymorphic repeats from the median locus repeat length. Here, all observed repeat lengths of all polymorphic repeat alleles were plotted against the respective locus median repeat length. The X-axis is not continuous as at the higher end of median repeat lengths not all sizes were represented. It can be noted that for repeat loci with lower median repeat length, most observed repeat lengths clustered around the median repeat length. However, many of these observed repeat lengths at this range still differed considerably from the median repeat length. In general, observed repeat length variance appeared to increase as the median repeat length increased (Supplementary Table 2).