Figure 2From: Genetic characterization of a core collection of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) suitable for association mapping studies and evidence of divergent selection between fiber and linseed typesDistribution of pairwise molecular coancestry estimates and linkage disequilibrium decay. (a) Global pairwise molecular coancestry estimates of the 407 flax accessions of the core collection. Only kinship values ranging from 0 to 0.5 are shown. (b) Scatter plot of LD decay (r2) against the genetic distances (cM) for pairs of linked SSRs across the 15 linkage groups. The inner panel shows a detailed view of LD decay for markers located within 5 cM. The decay curves were plotted according to Breseghello and Sorells [75]. The blue line represents the threshold level of significance (r2 = 0.1). The red line represents the average genome-wide LD of linked markers. (c) Pairwise molecular coancestry estimates [72] within each of the six sub-groups. The diagonal values correspond to the intra sub-group molecular coancestry. (d) Average genome-wide LD decay curves for linked markers within each of the six sub-groups.Back to article page