Table 2 Number of multistep (a) and total (b) mutations observed, multistep mutation frequency, and corresponding 95% confidence intervals, per group of markers.

From: The sequence of the repetitive motif influences the frequency of multistep mutations in Short Tandem Repeats

Group

Multistep mutations (a)

Mutations (b)

Multistep mutation frequency*

IC 95% lower bound

IC 95% upper bound

ATT

2

17

0.1176

0.0146

0.3644

CTT

10

86

0.1162

0.0572

0.2035

TCTA/GATA

5

540

0.0093

0.0030

0.0215

GAAA/CTTT

33

629

0.0524

0.0364

0.0729

CTTTT

4

16

0.2500

0.0727

0.5238

AGAGAT

1

19

0.0526

0.0013

0.2603

  1. *Calculated as: \(\frac{a}{b}\). Values rounded to 4 dp.
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