A fine-scale linkage-disequilibrium measure based on length of haplotype sharing

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 615-628

  Wang, Yan ^a,b   Zhao, Lue Ping ^b   Dudoit, Sandrine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645467493     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502632     Document Type: Article

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