Table 1

Comparison of paralogous CMT1A-REP sequence alignment with orthologous control sequences, together with results of the Sawyer-CpG permutation test for detecting the imprint of gene conversion. Significance at the 95% level is indicated in bold. Comparison of orthologous and paralogous sequence alignments

Sequences

Length (bp)

Variant sites (at CpGs)

CpG frequency

SSUF

P value

CMT1A-REPs

23758

257 (73)

0.0098

5220559

0.008

Chr.12 orthologs

23584

275 (62)

0.0067

4405300

0.058

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