Handling linkage disequilibrium in qualitative trait linkage analysis using dense SNPs: A two-step strategy

BMC Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cho, Kelly ^b   Dupuis, Josée ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOD SCORE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 69549110141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-10-44     Document Type: Article

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