The impact of SNP density on fine-scale patterns of linkage disequilibrium

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 577-588

  Ke, Xiayi ^a   Hunt, Sarah ^b   Tapper, William ^c   Lawrence, Robert ^a   Stavrides, George ^b   Ghori, Jilur ^b   Whittaker, Pamela ^b   Collins, Andrew ^c   Morris, Andrew P ^a   Bentley, David ^b   Cardon, Lon R ^a   Deloukas, Panos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALGORITHMS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 12144290432     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh060     Document Type: Article

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