Table 5. Empirical power for estimation of LD in a half-sib families from a double homozygote, homo-heterozygote and a double heterozygote sire for varying family sizes.

				Hetero-hetero: Simulated c
Simulated δ	Size	Homo-homo	Homo-hetero	0	0.25	0.50
0	100	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
0.025	100	0.06	0.04	0.05	0.03	0.02
	200	0.12	0.06	0.11	0.05	0.03
	500	0.37	0.16	0.36	0.13	0.07
	1000	0.72	0.37	0.71	0.31	0.16
0.050	100	0.29	0.13	0.27	0.11	0.07
	200	0.60	0.30	0.59	0.24	0.13
	500	0.98	0.73	0.97	0.64	0.38
	1000	1.00	0.97	1.00	0.94	0.73
0.100	100	1.00	0.64	0.93	0.51	0.32
	200	1.00	0.93	1.00	0.87	0.63
	500	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.97
	1000	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

The allele frequencies were $f_T=0.5$ and $f_M=0.5$. The significance level was 0.01. The number of replicates was 10⁴.