Mathematical properties of the r2 measure of linkage disequilibrium

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 130-137

  VanLiere, Jenna M ^a   Rosenberg, Noah A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele frequency; Linkage disequilibrium; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECOMBINATION; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GENE FREQUENCY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 46449095087     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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