Estimates of genomic kinship based on the SNP
markers between all pairs of cassava genotypes showed
variation of -0.167 to 0.681, averaging 0.076 (Figure 3).
The negative values indicate genomic kinship pairs of
individuals that share few alleles compared to those expected
based on the allelic frequencies, whereas positive
values represent the opposite. Therefore, these estimates
indicate a low relatedness between individuals,
which certainly contributes to the maximization of the
expected gains with selection in the resulted segregated
populations.