Article
[Linkage analysis for complex diseases: a new life for an old method].
Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Tunis - 1 Jan 2000
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In this paper, I present the main approaches used in gene mapping of complex human diseases by linkage analysis based on molecular markers. The first section describes the traditional LOD-score analysis and gives a review of different improvements and refinements of this approach, which has been proposed in order to take into account complicating factors such as incomplete penetrance, genetic heterogeneity and...
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