Figure 4.

Local LD decay rate ($\widehat{\mathit{\alpha }}$) and LD (r²) along Chromosome 1 for three breeds. (a) is $\widehat{\alpha }$ for each sliding window plotted against the physical position (in Mb) of the middle point SNP in this window, and (b) is the expected $\widehat{r^2}$ estimated by $\widehat{\alpha }$ and d = 10 Mb plotted against middle point SNP position (in Mb). The sliding window size N = 100.