To evaluate the potential impact of the different ancestries in the refined map, we build a refined European map applying our method to the recombination events inferred in parents of European ancestry, representing 94.3% of female and 93% of male meioses included in the combined data set (Supplementary Table 1). The refined female, male and sex-averaged maps are highly correlated to the European maps at all scales (Supplementary Fig. 4). At the 20 kb scale, Pearson's r2 between the refined and European maps is above 0.96. At the 1 Mb scale and beyond, they have near perfect correlation. The two maps also have the same Pearson correlation to the HapMap and OMNI CEU maps suggesting that genome wide the refined estimates of recombination rates are mostly representative of Europeans.