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Decay of LD (r2) with physical distance between each respective pair of SNPs. Across this set of comparisons, few cases of strong LD occur for SNPs more distant than ∼80 kb. For every SNP in this data set, there exists, within the same cluster, at least one other SNP that has r2 >0.5.