Carter: Were Recombination Rates Higher in the Past?

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  1. The table on page 13 of the supplementary PDF of the paper I linked above compares different pedigree rates, without much of a substantial difference:

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  1. One reason for differences in population-specific hotpots is different alleles of PRDM9.
  1. Wouldn’t this be approximately 500,000/6,000=83x faster recombination rates, given your TMR4A results?
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