A cross-population extended haplotype-based homozygosity score test to detect positive selection in genome-wide scans

Statistics and its Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-64

  Zhong, Ming ^a,b   Zhang, Yiwei ^a   Lange, Kenneth ^c   Fan, Ruzong ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended homozygosity; Linkage disequilibrium; Ositive selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864390162     PISSN: 19387989     EISSN: 19387997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/sii.2011.v4.n1.a6     Document Type: Article

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