Haplotype blocks and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 587-597

  Wall, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCERTAINMENT BIAS; BAYES THEOREM; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; COALESCENT SIMULATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAIRWISE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POPULATION GENETICS; PREASCERTAINED SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNPHASED DIPLOID DATA;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0043267974     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1123     Document Type: Review

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