Figure 2.
The effect of recombination and demographic history on haplotype block characteristics; average haplotype block size ± SE versus recombination level for a sample size of 100. If we assume 1 cM = 1 Mb, the recombination rate r is ∼10−8 per generation per intersite. The average block size decreases with the increasing recombination level. The effective population size was adjusted by fixing the ratio of R/θ and allowing θ to vary from 5, 10, and 25 (which corresponds to effective population sizes of 2,000, 4,000, and 10,000).