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Linkage disequilibrium patterns vary substantially among populations.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 May 2005
Sawyer Sarah L, Mukherjee Namita, Pakstis Andrew J, Feuk Lars, Kidd Judith R, Brookes Anthony J, Kidd Kenneth K
Abstract excerpt
A major initiative to create a global human haplotype map has recently been launched as a tool to improve the efficiency of disease gene mapping. The 'HapMap' project will study common variants in depth in four (and to a lesser degree in up to 12) populations to catalogue haplotypes that are expected to be common to all populations. A hope of the 'HapMap' project is that much of the genome occurs in regions of...
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