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Genetics, Vol. 176, 1691-1701, July 2007, Copyright © 2007
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.070805
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Department of Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
1 Corresponding author: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.
E-mail: hans.ellegren{at}ebc.uu.se
5% the density of SNPs segregating in the chicken genome. The great majority of indels involved a limited number of nucleotides (median 1 bp), with A-rich motifs being overrepresented at indel sites. The overrepresentation of deletions at tandem duplicates indicates that replication slippage in duplicate sequences is a common mechanism behind indel mutation. The correlation between indel and SNP density indicates common effects of mutation and/or selection on the occurrence of indels and point mutations.
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