Table 2.

Number of Marker Pairs in LD

Intermarker distance (cM) n P < 0.01 P < 0.001
spouses affecteds combined spouses affecteds combined
<1 cM11111111101111
1–2 cM189131471012
2–3 cM142811147
3–4 cM18467124
≥4 cM842171612034
Total in 99.2903435455193038

[i] P-values from a likelihood ratio test for LD. n, number of marker pairs. The spouse, affected, and combined samples consist of 386,837 and 1223 individuals, respectively.