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. 2009 Aug 20;34(2):146–150. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20444

Table II.

Percentage of autosomal SNP pairsa showing no evidence of recombination (D′ = 1), perfect LD (r2 = 1), or where useful LD is observed (r2 ≥ 0.8)

D′ = 1 r = 1 r2 ≥ 0.8



Inter-SNP distance (kb) OOA CEU OOA CEU OOA CEU
≤10 79 75 20 19 30 29
10–20 60 53 9 7 15 14
20–50 43 34 4 3 9 7
50–100 28 20 1 1 3 2
100–200 20 11 0 0 1 1
200–500 14 7 0 0 0 0
500–1,000 12 6 0 0 0 0
1,000–2,000 11 5 0 0 0 0
2,000–5,000 10 5 0 0 0 0
5,000–10,000 8 5 0 0 0 0

OOA, Old Order Amish (n = 60); CEU, US Utah residents from HapMap (n = 60).

a

Restricted to SNPs with minor allele frequency ≥0.05 in both samples (n = 287,476).