Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is the nonrandom association of alleles of different loci. There is no single best statistic that quantifies the extent of LD. Several statistics have been proposed ...

Bateson, Saunders, and Punnett weren't sure. In fact, it was not until the later work of geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan that this coupling, or linkage, could be fully explained. At the beginning of ...