Allele frequency matching between SNPs reveals an excess of linkage disequilibrium in genic regions of the human genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1319-1327

  Eberle, Michael A ^a   Rieder, Mark J ^a   Kruglyak, Leonid ^b   Nickerson, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33749394003     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020142     Document Type: Article

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