TABLE 5.

The observed (Obs) and expected (Exp) correlations of χ^2′ between generations (Gi) for the LD96 data set, according to line, generation, and distance between marker pairs

	Line 1							Line 3
G1–G2		G1–G6		G2–G6		G5–G6		G5–G7		G6–G7
Marker distance (cM)	N	Obs	Expb	Obs	Expb	Obs	Expb	N	Obs	Expb	Obs	Expb	Obs	Expb
≤5	78	0.87	0.96	0.84	0.85	0.90	0.87	52	0.96	0.96	0.95	0.93	0.94	0.96
5–10	69	0.82	0.87	0.86	0.53	0.90	0.60	54	0.86	0.87	0.82	0.77	0.81	0.87
10–20	102	0.60	0.79	0.56	0.35	0.79	0.42	90	0.84	0.79	0.69	0.63	0.6	0.79
>20a	1089	0.13	0.60	0.22	0.18	0.20	0.21	759	0.42	0.60	0.28	0.40	0.39	0.60
Nonsyntenic	1290	0.14	0.34	0.12	0.09	0.20	0.10	936	0.22	0.34	0.11	0.16	0.19	0.34

^a>20 cM, distance between markers from 20 cM to maximum possible within the same chromosome.

^bExpected correlations obtained by simulation, see text for details.