Detecting deletions in families affected by a dominant disease by use of marker data.

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A method of testing for whether inherited deletions are a cause of a single-locus dominant disease was derived, involving analysis of the marker segregation within the pedigree of a single family that segregates for the disease. It is shown that markers can be used to test deductively for the presence of an inherited deletion. The probabilities of confirming or rejecting the presence of a deletion in an arbitrary...

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