See the descriptions of the Lambda and Uncertainty coefficients available from the MEASURES option in the FREQ procedure documentation. The variables in your data set can be used as is with no conversion. For example, the Uncertainty Coefficient (C|R) tells you that the Events variable explains about 4% of the uncertainty in the Genome variable.
Alternatively, if you assume that both are ordinal variables and you want to test whether increasing Events increases Genome, then use the JT option after making sure that the levels of both variables are in increasing order.
proc format;
value $ genf "Disagree"="1 Disgree" "Undecided"="2 Undecided" "Agree"="3 Agree";
run;
data z;
input Genome:$10. Events $;
datalines;
Undecided 4-5
Undecided 0-1
Agree 0-1
...
;
proc freq order=formatted;
format genome $genf.;
table events*genome/measures jt;
run;
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