Table 1 Pearson correlations (P values) between chromosome-specific effective bottleneck times (Bhérer map) and gene density

From: Gene-dense autosomal chromosomes show evidence for increased selection

Population

Mayer et al. (2005) (genes/Mb)

Spataro et al. (2017) (genes/Mb)

NDNE (genes/Mb)

CNM (genes/Mb)

CM (genes/Mb)

MNC (genes/Mb)

END (genes/Mb)

Wellderly

−0.251 (0.2604)

−0.217 (0.3311)

−0.201 (0.3696)

−0.207 (0.3549)

0.481 (0.0234*)

−0.116 (0.6069)

−0.298 (0.1779)

Ethiopia

0.533 (0.0107*)

0.471 (0.0271*)

0.448 (0.0367*)

−0.314 (0.1547)

0.444 (0.0384*)

0.507 (0.0161*)

0.570 (0.0057**)

Zulu

0.502 (0.0173*)

0.444 (0.0383*)

−0.422 (0.0507)

−0.283 (0.2024)

0.474 (0.0258*)

0.453 (0.0344*)

0.540 (0.0095**)

Baganda

0.540 (0.0094**)

0.480 (0.0237*)

0.461 (0.0310*)

−0.314 (0.1550)

0.496 (0.0190*)

0.485 (0.0221*)

0.566 (0.0061**)

  1. Significance level: *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; significant correlations shown in bold