Table 2.

Average linkage disequilibrium (r²) between adjacent SNP pairs by chromosome and including all genotyped animals (n = 14,845)

Chr.	N pairs	Mean r2	Mean dist. (kb)	Max dist. (kb)	Chr	N pairs	Mean r2	Mean dist. (kb)	Max dist. (kb)
1	58,073	0.263	4.74	117.87	15	17,068	0.264	4.74	93.00
2	52,391	0.275	4.75	152.46	16	14,974	0.249	4.78	74.52
3	46,858	0.276	4.78	146.79	17	15,050	0.247	4.80	115.76
4	24,928	0.267	4.78	204.62	18	14,599	0.263	4.69	138.63
5	22,793	0.263	4.73	305.58	19	13,094	0.260	4.60	96.23
6	24,338	0.262	4.80	70.15	20	11,033	0.255	4.62	132.22
7	21,261	0.264	4.71	268.22	21	10,422	0.246	4.80	173.10
8	19,070	0.260	4.75	131.01	22	10,779	0.254	4.71	108.88
9	19,831	0.259	4.77	85.59	23	12,949	0.245	4.81	45.27
10	17,848	0.267	4.84	357.01	24	9,190	0.262	4.57	70.25
11	13,820	0.271	4.50	139.12	25	9,786	0.249	4.63	104.82
12	17,047	0.257	4.64	61.26	26	9,411	0.244	4.68	44.36
13	17,639	0.282	4.71	343.36	All	507,918	0.263	4.74	357.01
14	13,624	0.261	4.60	140.07

Chr chromosome, N pairs number of SNP pairs, Max dist. maximum distance