Extent of linkage disequilibrium and effective population size in South African cattle populations

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Linkage disequilibrium (LD),which is the non-random association of alleles at different loci,has received a considerable amount of attention amongst geneticists to investigate genomic regions that have been subjected to selection within the different breeds and populations.
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