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Table 1 Haplotype block characteristics according to different definition methods, applied to the total group of 137 SNPs.

From: Characterisation of the genomic architecture of human chromosome 17q and evaluation of different methods for haplotype block definition

Definitiona

n blocks

Average block length (kb)

Average n SNPs/block

% of sequence covered

n SNPs in blocks (%)

Definition 1

20

28.3

2.6

9.3

52 (38)

Definition 2

19

16.5

2.6

5

46 (33.6)

Definition 3

32

24.2

2.1

12.7

62 (45.3)

Definition 4

60

130.7

4.3

85.8

130 (95)

Definition 5

38

42.0

2.9

26.2

111 (81)

  1. aDefinition 1 [16], Definition 2 (modification of [16]), Definition 3 [24] and Definition 5 (D' high threshold method) were based on measures of LD, whereas Definition 4 (n+1 method) was based on haplotype diversity.
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