Linkage disequilibrium mapping of complex disease: Fantasy or reality?

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 578-594

  Terwilliger, Joseph D ^a   Weiss, Kenneth M ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032403973     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(98)80135-3     Document Type: Article

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