A multilocus linkage disequilibrium measure based on mutual information theory and its applications

Genetica

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 355-364

  Zhang, Lei ^a,b   Liu, Jianfeng ^b   Deng, Hong Wen ^a,b,c,d  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entropy; Haplotype block; Haplotype tagging SNPs (htSNPs); Linkage disequilibrium (LD); Multilocus LD; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; EVALUATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 70449533842     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-009-9399-2     Document Type: Article

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