Genetically indistinguishable SNPs and their influence on inferring the location of disease-associated variants

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1503-1510

  Lawrence, Robert ^a   Evans, David M ^a   Morris, Andrew P ^a   Ke, Xiayi ^a   Hunt, Sarah ^b   Paolucci, Marta ^a   Ragoussis, Jiannis ^a   Deloukas, Panos ^b   Bentley, David ^b   Cardon, Lon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 20; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE COMPONENTS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 27544439643     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4217605     Document Type: Article

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