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Figure 1: The effect of phase on LD.
Figure 2: We calculated the ratio of r2 for each pair of SNPs in samples of isolated and outbred populations.

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Shifman, S., Darvasi, A. The value of isolated populations. Nat Genet 28, 309–310 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/91060

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