Table 1. LD in the entire panel and subpopulations.

Groupsa	Totalb		Linkedc		Unlinkedd
	r 2	Sig. LD (%)e	r 2	Sig. LD (%)e	r 2	Sig. LD (%)e
P1	0.0151	5.10	0.0194	7.31	0.015	5.02
P2	0.0104	10.78	0.0172	11.11	0.0101	10.77
Entire panel	0.0103	18.29	0.0160	21.03	0.0101	18.18

^a Groups P1 and P2 were classified based on the results of STRUCTURE analysis of the 356 Upland cotton accessions.

^b The total set of locus pairs, including linked and unlinked loci.

^c Pairs of loci on the same chromosome.

^d Pairs of loci from different chromosomes.

^e Significant threshold is set to P≤0.01.