Summary of var gene exon 1 recombinations.

* Excluding the parental samples. ** var/SNP ratio is the number of pairs of recombining var genes divided by the number of SNPs.**Although Bopp et al reports 4 pairs of recombining var genes, one is in the exon2, a region that was not considered in this analysis; another one did not correlate with our own analysis and was discarded. All but one chimeric var genes reported in Sander et al were also discovered in our analysis (the remaining one was is in a progeny sample not available to us).Summary of var gene exon 1 recombinations.