Figure 2.—

Linkage disequilibrium between QTL and HD-SNPs measured by r² against distance in centimorgans (cM) obtained from one replicate in which 500 QTL were simulated. The solid line is the average r² estimated for bins of length 0.5 cM. The dashed line is the predicted r² based on the equation E(r²) = 1/(1 + 4 × 100 × θ), where 100 is the effective population size and θ is the recombination frequency.