Table 1.

The Block Partitioning Results Using Different α and β^a

α	β	Number of tag SNPs	Number of blocks	Number of SNPs in the largest blocks
80%	5%	13	10	36
	10%	16	13	28
90%	5%	26	12	23
	10%	28	19	21

^aBased on the genotypes of the offspring in Daly et al (2001)