Table 2. LD expressed as squared allele frequency correlation (^r²) calculated for the panel of 104 banana accessions selected for GWAS and genotyped with 5544 markers.

		Total pairs	Mean r² (total)	%significant pairs	significant pairs	Mean r² (significant pairs)	% of pairs > thr.	Mean of r² > thr.
Genotypes	Total linked	1417890	0.06	26.09	370032	0.17	9.14	0.56
	0kb-10kb	11001	0.25	54.03	5955	0.47	47.98	0.77
	10kb-100kb	10384	0.12	41.65	4046	0.29	23.43	0.64
	100kb-500kb	44253	0.10	39.35	16394	0.26	19.39	0.59
	500kb-1mb	53351	0.09	34.47	18519	0.24	16.39	0.58
	1mb-5mb	366111	0.07	28.06	105122	0.20	10.50	0.55
	5mb-10mb	297984	0.06	24.74	73975	0.18	7.39	0.53
	10mb-100mb	634806	0.05	22.90	146021	0.17	4.99	0.49

r² values with associated LOD values > 2 are considered significant. Threshold values correspond to the 95^th percentile of the distribution of the square root transformation of r² calculated for pairs of markers considered unlinked, i.e. separated by more than 10 Mb.