Perils in the use of linkage disequilibrium for fine gene mapping: Simple insights from population genetics

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3292-3297

  Gorroochurn, Prakash ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ASSORTATIVE MATING; DISEASE MARKER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN GENOME; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOTE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 57449111920     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0717     Document Type: Note

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