Fig. 3

AsmVar demo plot of the ancestral state and mechanisms of origin of deletions and insertions. a Size spectrum of the deletions and insertions. The box plot corresponds to the quartiles of the individual load according to the size distribution. Both the x-axis and the y-axis use logarithm scales. b Annotation of the ancestral state of the structural variants according to the size spectrum. The y-axis denotes proportion. c Annotation of the mechanism of formation of the structural variants according to the size spectrum. The y-axis denotes the proportion of the variants that belong to differnet kinds of mechanisms as a function of the variation size. By default, AsmVar annotates the mechanisms of formation of structural variants <50 bp as ‘UNSURE’. NAHR, non-allelic homologous recombination; NHR, non-homologous recombination; TEI, transposable element insertion; VNTR, variable number of tandem repeats; Other abbreviations in the plot are INS, insertions and DEL, deletions