Fig. 1. Chromosome of length L with the target locus at position x, two markers for foreground selection at positions m_l and m_r, and two markers for background selection at positions y_l and y_r. The map distances of the target locus to the foreground selection markers are denoted with ₁ and ₂ and those to the background selection markers with d₁ and d₂.

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