Fig. 1

Distribution of number of heterozygous loci and shared alleles for unlinked vs fully linked data. The simulated dataset is a mixed genetic panel with 20 STRs and 10 SNPs for 500 random individuals. a, b are the distribution comparisons of number of heterozygous loci and Shared Alleles (non-overlapped pairs) for unlinked data. All STRs and SNPs were generated from different chromosomes randomly. c, d are distribution comparisons of number of heterozygous loci and Shared Alleles (non-overlapped pairs) for linked data. All STRs were from the same chromosome, and all SNPs were from the same chromosome. However, STRs and SNPs were randomly grouped. Red line in plots are curves of expected probabilities