A consensus framework map of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) suitable for linkage disequilibrium analysis and genome-wide association mapping

Table 5 Linkage disequilibrium estimates for the elite durum wheat panel based on mapped SSR and DArT markers

Marker pairs		Linkage disequilibrium estimate
Distance (cM)	Count (no.)	Average r²	Average D’
0	504	0.674	0.858
0 - 0.5	392	0.473	0.767
0.5 - 1.0	306	0.357	0.658
1.0 - 5.0	2,677	0.275	0.663
5.1 - 10.0	2,437	0.150	0.525
10.1 - 20.0	3,256	0.087	0.398
20.1 - 30.0	2,667	0.066	0.323
30.1 - 40.0	2,386	0.036	0.283
40.1-50.0	2,381	0.029	0.254
> 50	18,139	0.025	0.232

LD decay in a collection of 183 elite durum wheat accessions from the Mediterranean, CIMMYT and ICARDA germplasm included in the association mapping Durum Panel.

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