Diversity Rates for Autosomal Chromosomes.

aThe diversity rates based on Dr. Venter's and Dr. Watson's genomes are probably underestimated by ∼25%, the percentage of heterozygotes missed due to low read coverage [16],[20].
bFor coding indels, we show the diversity values before and after filtering. Some diversity values for indels are higher after filtering because homozygous indels were re-classified as heterozygous indels.
cFor Dr. Watson's genome, we assume that the entire genome was covered by reads, which will also lead to an underestimate (see Methods). There is a large difference between the diversity values for Dr. Watson's and Dr. Venter's genome for simple repeats. This may be due to the methodological differences between Sanger and 454 technologies.