Linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay as a function of genomic distance in each population, using <i>r</i>^<i>2</i> between pairs of markers with MAF≥5% and within 1000 bp of each other.

<p>The plotted <i>r</i>^<i>2</i> is the mean calculated for pairwise distances binned in 5-bp increments. LD decays to <i>r</i>^<i>2</i> = 0.2 within approximately 187 bp for Cambodia, 162 bp for Thailand, 102 bp for Gambia, and 67 bp for Malawi.