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Haplotype and missing data inference in nuclear families.
Genome research - 1 Aug 2004
Lin Shin, Chakravarti Aravinda, Cutler David J
Abstract excerpt
Determining linkage phase from population samples with statistical methods is accurate only within regions of high linkage disequilibrium (LD). Yet, affected individuals in a genetic mapping study, including those involving cases and controls, may share sequences identical-by-descent stretching on the order of 10s to 100s of kilobases, quite possibly over regions of low LD in the population. At the same time,...
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