Article
Assessing the power of tag SNPs in the mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) with extremal and random samples.
BMC genetics - 19 Oct 2005
Zhang Kui, Sun Fengzhu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have indicated that the human genome could be divided into regions with low haplotype diversity interspersed with regions of high haplotype diversity. In regions of low haplotype diversity, a small fraction of SNPs (tag SNPs) are sufficient to account for most of the haplotype diversity of the human genome. These tag SNPs can be extremely useful for testing the association of a marker...
Topics
- Chromosome Mapping
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Genome, Human
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- Sample Size
