The effect of marker characteristics on the power to detect linkage disequilibrium due to single or multiple ancestral mutations

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-169

  Sham, P C ^a   Zhao, J H ^a   Curtis, D ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FOUNDER EFFECT; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MUTATION;

EID: 0033915978     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480000008046     Document Type: Article

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